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Scotia shore, especially west of Halifax, and in. Massachu- 
setts Bay or Cape Cod Bay, should now and then appear on 
the coast of Maine. 
The first publication, known to the writer, containing a 
list of technical names* of Maine fishes is “The History of 
the State of Maine from its First Discovery, A. D. 1602 to 
the Separation, A. D. 1820, inclusive”, by William D. Wil- 
lamson, in two volumes, published by Glazier, Masters & 
Co., at Hallowell, in 1832. Section V of Vol. I comprises 
an account of the ‘‘Native Animals, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, 
Vermes, Reptiles and Insects”. The chapter on fishes begins 
on page 150 and extends to and includes page 164. 
The author says: ‘In oursalt and fresh waters are found 
about sixty species of fish, and generally they are abundant 
in numbers. Some are warm blooded, some amphibious, some 
without bones, and some without scales—differently classed 
by different ichthyologists.” 
In the list of fishes are included several mammals, as the 
whale, blackfish, porpoise and seal. 
In Section IT of the same volume, describing the “Face of 
the Country, Seacoast, Islands, Rivers, Mountains and Soils” 
some fishes are alluded to by their common names. These 
references and those of the list, the technical names of which 
are given in footnotes, contain 59 nominal forms, represent- 
ing 56 good species. 
With the exception of the above mentioned list and a few 
references to or descriptions of one or more species from 
Maine the earliest work on Maine Fishes is that of Dr. 
Ezekiel Holmes in 1862, which also is the only considerable 
catalogue of Maine fishes. Dr. Holmes’ work consists of a 
history of the fisheries, a classification of the fishes, in which 
*Josselyn’s (1672 and 1674) accounts of fishes, though in the form of lists, are archaic 
productions, with non-technical names. The species are often questionable, and fre- 
quently entirely unidentifiable. 
Though Sullivan (1795) presents several scattered notes on fishes, no list is given. 
