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243. Gastrosteus aculeatus* Linmrus. 

 Common Stickleback. 



Fluviatile, in brackisii water, and marine. 



Maritime Provinces; and Gaspe district, Province of Quel)ec: also foiunl in Ontario: Hud- 

 son Bay, Labrador, and Greenland: extends southward in the United States to New 

 •Jersey: coasts and streams of northern Europe. 



244. Gastrosteus atkinsii Bean. 



Eastern Stickleback. 



Lacustrine and fluviatile. 



Province of (Jueboc and State of Maine. 



245. Gastrosteus cuvieri (liraid. 

 Partly Armoui-ed Stickleliack. 

 Lacustrine, fluviatile. and in brackish water. 



Labrador, Newfoundland, and Anticosti Lsland (Schmitt, l'.)()4, as (la.^tero.stciis bispmosus): 

 extendiuj; southward to the coast of Massachusetts. 



246. Gastrosteus cataphractus Pallas. 

 Alaska Sticklcl)ack. 



Marine; "rarely or nevei' entering fresh water." 



British Columbia: ranges from California to .Vlaska, hence to Siberia and Japan. 



247. Gastrosteus williamsoni microcephalus (iirard. 

 California Stickleback. 



Coastwise streams and brackish water. 



British Columbia: ranges from Lower California, Mexico, to Alaska. 



248. Apeltes quadracus Mitihill. 

 Four-spinetl Stickleback. 

 Marine. 



Maritime Provinces: ranges in the United States from Maine to New Jersey. 



249. Aulorhynchus flavidus (iilj. 

 Yellow Stickleback. 

 Marine. 



British Columbia: ranges from coast of California to Alaska. 



250. Fistularia tabacaria Linnaus. 

 Trumpet Fish. 



Marine. 



"Occasional specimens taken in shore waters [of Nova Scotia] during the summer months" 

 (Jones, 1879): ordinary range, "West Indies and neighbouring seas, generally com- 

 mon; occasional northward to Carolina and Florida, or even to Long Lsland" (Jordan 

 and Evermann): has been recorded also from coast of Ma.ssachusetts. 



*G. aculeatus ami (r. bisj)ino>!us .are treated here a.s one and the same species, the European name being adopted 

 for the two. 



