12 NORTH AMERICAN FRESH-WATER FISHES. 



ESOCIDiE. Plate 1. 



LUCIUS RETICULATUS {Le Smir). 

 ESOX CLATHRATUS. Baird. 



The Coiumoii Pickerel ; Eastern Pickerel. 



Fig. 1. View of roof of mouth from below, showing vomerine and palatine teeth. 



2. Scale from the rudimentary lateral line. 



3. Scale from above the lateral line. 



4. Scale from below the lateral line. 



5. Outline of section of body near the middle of the length. 



6. Outline of body seen from above. 



7. A young example. 



The Pickerel is found in all lakes, ponds, and quiet waters east of the 

 mountains, from Maine southward to Florida and Mississippi. It is a "solemn, 

 statelv, and ruminant fish," extremely voracious toward the little fishes which 

 bask in its company among the lily pads. Like the other members of the Pike 

 family, it is excellent as food, its white flesh breaking up, when cooked, into 

 broad flakes. 



