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gether to the streams in which they were taken, as pale examples 
were taken at the same time and precisely in the same localities. 
During the winter months, when the ponds and creeks are frozen, 
it was not unusual to see them captured by striking the ice above 
a sharp blow with a hatchet, and then chop through and extract 
them before they have recovered from the effect of the concus- 
sion. Small boys often employed this method, and I have seen 
them with a dozen or more taken during a single afternoon in 
late winter and early spring. The flesh of this fish is of excellent 
quality. It is of rather small size, few examples exceeding a fout 
in length. The young are paler and without the rich coloring 
of large examples, usually more or less pale hyaline-green with 
very pale markings. ‘They have the same voracious habits, how- 
ever. 
So far as I can learn no pike have been taken in Lily Lake at 
Cape May, though they were reported from Mill Pond, the next 
body of fresh-water of size to the north. 
Esox americanus Jordan, An. N. Y. Acad. Sci., T, 1879, p- 
104.—Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VI, 1887, p. 147, from Baird. 
Lucius americanus Evermann, Recreation, April, 1902, p. 2092. 
Esox fasciatus Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 345. 
—Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 822.—Abbott, Rep. U. S. F. 
Com., 1875-76, p. 844.—Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, p. 478. 
Esox porosus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868 (1869), p. 822.—Ab- 
bott, Am. Nat., IV, 1870, p. 386.—Abbott, Rep. U. S. F. Com., 
1875-76, p. 844 
Esox umbrosus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1883, p. 
£22) 
Esox vermiculatus Cope, Am. Nat., XXX, 1896, p. 943. 
Esox reticulatus Le Sueur. 
Pike. Chain Pickerel. Pickerel. Common Eastern Pickerel. 
Head 2? (2: depth 6; 1). V,. 12; 151 AMA, es scales, 11,5. in 
lateral line to base of caudal, and about 7 more on latter; about 
42 tubes in median lateral line; 13 scales between origin of dorsal 
and lateral line; about 12 scales between origin of anal and 
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