72 THE FISHES OF OHIO. 
bluish or greenish gray, with many whitish or yellowish spots arranged 
somewhat in rows. Dorsal, anal and caudal fins with roundish or oblong, 
black spots. Length 4 feet. 
The Pickerel is said to have been very abundant at one time 
in all the streams flowing into Lake Erie and somewhat less 
common in the Ohio river drainage. In the latter it has now, as 
far as Ohio is concerned, become quite rare, and in the lake 
drainage, and even in the lake itself, it has noticeably diminished 
in numbers. Kirtland gives it as ‘‘common both to the waters. 
of the Ohio and the lake.’’ Lake Erie and Sandusky river, 
Henshall, 1889; Lorain County, Lake Erie and Black river, 
‘often killed in the ponds and channels of the snipe ground 
when they are spawning,’’ McCormick, 1892; St. Joseph river at 
Edgerton, Tiffin river at West Unity and Brunersburg, Auglaize 
river at Cloverdale, Kirsch, 1893 ; Sandusky Bay, R. C. Osburn, 
1899 ; Licking reservoir, a single specimen, 1% feet in length. 
R. C. Osburn, Igoo. 
Lucius masquinongy (Mitchill). MUSKALLUNGE. 
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Head 3%; depth 6; eye 4to6in snout. D.17; A. 15; scales 150. Gen- 
eral form of Z. /ucius; the head proportionately longer. Cheeks and oper- 
cles both naked below. Color dark gray, sides in the typical form, mas- 
guinongy, with round or squarish, blackish spots of varying size on a ground 
color of grayish silvery; belly white; fins spotted with black. Length 4 to 
8 feet. 
This magnificent Pike is represented in Ohio by two varieties, 
as follows: L. masguinongy var. masquinongy, the typical form, 
confined to Lake Erie and its tributary rivers, and ZL. Masgut- 
nongy ohiensis (Kirtland), confined to the Ohio river and its 
tributary streams. The variety ofiensis is separated from the 
typical form by the presence of narrow irregular crossbars, 
formed by the coalescing of spots on the sides. Kirtland records 
the former for Lake Erie and the Ohio canal near Massilon, 
1838, and the latter for the Mahoning river, 1854 ; Ohio river 
and Lake Erie, Henshall, 1889 ; McCormick records the species. 
for Lorain County, and states that it is growing rare, being 
seldom taken in the pounds - Kirsch, in r893, speaks in the same 
strain of their diminishing numbers in Maumee river and the 
west end of Lake Erie. 
