THE GREAT NORTHERN PICKEREL. 181 
CHAPTEE XVI. 
THE GREAT NOETHEEN PICKEREL. 
JSsox Lucioides. — Tliis fish is very similar to the mas- 
callonge, so much so that it is not mentioned in most of 
the works on American Ichthyology, being confounded 
with the latter. The principal difl'erences in appearance 
are, that the snout of the pickerel, the under jaw espe- 
cially, is shorter and more obtuse than that of the mas- 
callonge, the light tint of its sides is yellower, and it 
never attains over twenty-five pounds. The markings 
on the sides are somewhat difi*erent, the light, elongated 
spots of the pickerel, being occasionally replaced in the 
mascallonge by dark spots on a greyish ground, and the 
fin-rays are not so numerous. 
Dorsal 18 ; Pectoral 16 ; Ventral 10 ; Anal 15 and 
Caudal 24. 
Or, according to Professor Agassiz — 
D. 21 ; P. 16 ; Y. 11 ; A. 16 ; C. IT. 
The principal color is dark grey, lighter on the sides 
than on the back. 
These fish are caught in all the sluggish waters of the 
l^orth, and on the same ground and at the same time with 
the mascallonge, and coincide with him entirely in habits 
and disposition. They exhibit the same ferocity, are 
allured by the same baits, entrapped in the same manner, 
and, in a culinary point of view are, if possible, inferior. 
