Storer’s Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 451 
D.10. P.17. V.8. A.15. C.19. Length, 2 inches, 1 line. 
Massachusetts Bay, Storer. 
Scopelus Humboldtii, Crarkr, Magazine of Natural History, 1833. 
Ob as Cov., Yarrety’s Brit. Fishes (2d edit.), 11. p. 162. 
Dr. Clarke’s description and figure, which Yarrell gives on pages 162 et seg., Vol. IL., 
agree so perfectly with my specimen as to leave no doubt of the identity of the European and 
American species. 
GENUS IV. COREGONUS, Cuv. 
Body in appearance herring-like ; with two dorsal fins, the first higher than 
long, the second adipose ; the scales large ; the mouth small, sometimes with 
minute teeth on the jaws or tongue, or both. 
1. Coregonus albus, Lesueur. 
Bluish-gray on the back, lighter on the sides, and white on the belly. Scales large, or- 
bicular. About eighty scales in the course of the lateral line, and twenty in an oblique series 
from the dorsal. Teeth on jaws scarcely to be felt; vomer and palate smooth. Jaws 
equal. 
D.15. P. 16. V.11. A. 15. C. 19%. Ricuarpson. Length, 17 to 20 inches. 
Lake Champlain, THompson. Lake Erie, Lesueur. All the interior lakes of America, 
from Brie to the Arctic Sea, RicHarpson. 
Called ‘* White-fish,’? by the fur-traders; ‘‘ Poisson blane,’’ by the Canadians; ‘‘ At- 
tihhawmegh,”’ by the Cree Indians ; ‘* Lake Shad,’’ in Vermont. 
Salmo lavaretus (Guiniad and Tickomeg), PENNANT’s Arct. Zodl., Introd., p. 298, and m. p. 293. 
Coregonus albus, White-fish, Lesveur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc., 1. p. 232, pl. 
Salmo (Coregonus) albus, Attihawmeg, Ricu., Fauna Boreal. Americ., 111. p. 195, pl. 89, fig. 2. 
Coregonus albus, White-fish, Krrtnanp’s Report, pp. 169, 195. 
Bs ff us Kirttanp, Bost. Journ, Nat. Hist., 11, p. 477, pl. 28, fig, 3. 
CE «« Lake Shad or White-fish, Tuompson’s Hist. of Vermont, p. 143, fig. 
‘ « White-fish, Dexay’s Report, p. 247, pl. 76, fig. 240. 
2. Coregonus Artedi, Lesueur. 
Ash-blue upon the back; paler and silvery on the rest of the body, with yellow tints 
on the tail, head, and dorsal. Form of the body elongated in the males, deeper and more 
compressed in the females. Scales large, ascending high up on the caudal fin. No teeth 
on margin of jaws. 
D.12. P.16. V.12. A. 14. C.19%. Length, 10 to 15 inches. 
Lake Ontario, Dexay. Lake Erie, Lesurur. Lake Huron, Cayuga Lake, Mircx- 
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