Stow's Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 185 



abdomen white. Fins reddish yellow, marbled with blackish and deep green. Scales small ; 

 about one hundred and sixty along the lateral line, and forty-five in a vertical row before the 

 ventrals. Caudal large, lunated, with equal and rounded lobes. 



D. 22. P. 18. V. 11. A. 20. C.20|. Lesueur. Length, 1 to 3 feet. 



D. 21. P. 14. V. 11. A. 17. C.26. Mitchill. 



D. 21. P. 12. V. 11. A. 21. C.19?. Dekav. 



Lake Erie, Lesueur. Lake Huron, Richardson. Ohio River, Kirtland. 



Esox estor, Pike, Pickerel, Maskallonge, Lesueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc, I. p. 413. 

 " " Griffith's Cuv., i. p. 390. 



" " Maskinonge, Rich., Fauna Boreal. Americ, in. p. 127. 

 " " Muskallonge, Kirtland's Report, pp. 169, 191. 

 " " Muskellunge, Dekay's Report, p. 222. 



Muskallonge, Kirtland's Manuscript for Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 



2. Esox reticulatus, Lesueur. 



Yellowish green, with more or less distinct irregularly-distributed longitudinal black lines. 

 Beneath white. Fins greenish. Pectorals, anal, and ventrals become reddish after death. 

 A vertical black band beneath the eye. Caudal deeply emarginated. 



D. 18. P. 13. V. 11. A. 17. C. 19. Length, 1 to 2 feet. 



Massachusetts, Storer. Connecticut, Linsley, Ayres. New York, Dekay. Ohio. 



Kirtland. 



Esox lucius, Fickerel, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., I. p. 440. 

 Esox reticulatus, Lesueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc, I. p. 414. 



Common Pickerel, Storer's Report, p. 97. 



Pike, Kirtland's Report, p. 194. 

 " Common Pickerel, Dekay's Report, p. 223, pi. 34, fig. 107. 



Esox fasciatus, Varied Pickerel, Dekay's Report, p. 224, pi. 34, fig. 110 (young). 

 Esox reticulatus, Pickerel, Thompson's Hist, of Vermont, p. 138. 



Lesueur, Ayres, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., iv. p. 2G9. 



Pickerel, Pike, Kirtland, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., iv. p. 233, pi. 10, fig. 2. 

 Esox tredecemlineatus, Federation Pike, Mitchill, Mirror, 1825, p. 361. 

 Esox tredecem-radialus, Federation Pike, Dekay's Report, p. 225 



3. Esox ni^er, Lesueur. 



Golden yellow upon sides, with numerous black bands interrupted into about three parts. 

 more distinct towards the head- Belly white, immaculate. Back and head deep black, im- 

 maculate. Pectoral and anal fins orange-yellow; dorsal and caudal bluish, the latter 

 slightly emarginate, lobes acute ; dorsal and anal fins opposite, subequal, rounded. 



D. 14. P. 15. V. 9. A. 14. C. IOjg. Length, 8 or 10 inches. 



Saratoga Lake, Lesueur- 



Esoxniger, Black Pike, Lesueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc, i. p. 415. 



Dr. Dekay thinks this may be the young of the E. reticulatus. 



4. Esox phaleratus, Say. 



Body dusky, with a vertical fulvous vitta, and three or four fulvous fascia:. 



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