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Stream (Kendall coll., 1903 and 1904); Rangeley Lakes 
(Atkins coll, 1903); Rainbow Lake (Garland coll., 1903 
and 1904, Evermann, 1905, and Kendall, 1908). 
ARGENTINIDA. THE SMELTs. 
54. Osmerus mordax (Mitchill). “Smeur’; “Saur 
WATER SMELT”; “FRESH WATER SMELT’. 
Range.—New York to Gulf of St. Lawrence; permanent 
resident of some lakes in Maine and New Hampshire; Lake 
Champlain and Memphramagog. 
Maine.—“Caught in abundance after March in our rivers” 
(Williamson, 1852); Maine (Kneeland, 1857, Storer, 1846, 
1858 and 1867a, Holmes, 1862, Me. F. C. Report, 1868, 
1869, 1870, 1879, 1880 and 1896, Me. S. and S. F. Report, _ 
1886, 1888, 1891, 1894, 1897, 1898, 1901, 1903, 1905, 1907 
and 1911, and Kendall, 1904 and 1908); St. Georges River 
(Eaton, 1851); ponds in Harrison and Belgrade (Foster & 
Atkins, 1868); Eastport (U.S. N. M., 1872); Casco Bay 
(U.S. N. M., 1873); Industry (U. S. N. M., 1874); Bel- 
grade Mills (U.S. N. M., 1875); Sebago Lake, Union River 
and the St. Croix systems, Big Lake, West Musquash Lake, 
Grand Lake and Grand Lake Stream, Pocumpus Lake, Sys- 
ladobsis and Sysladobsissis Lakes and Stream, Scraggley Lake 
and Pleasant Lake (Atkins, 1878); Bucksport (U.S. N. M., 
1878); Hancock County (Wasson, 1878); Portland (Bean, 
1881); Weld Pond (Atkins, 1884a); above Bay Ridge, on 
Androscoggin River, and Belgrade, Bear Brook, Long Pond, 
Norway Lake, Upper Dobsey or Sysladobsissis Lake, and riv- 
ers and creeks along the coast (Mather, 1885); St. Croix, East 
Machias, Chandler’s, Wescongus, Harrington, Narraguagus, 
Tunk, Sullivan’s, Patten, Penobscot, Bagaduce, Orland, Me- 
domak, St. George’s, Damariscotta, Sheepscot, Kennebec, New 
Meadows, Saco, York and Piscataqua Rivers, and West Bay, 
