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21. Clupea vernalis Mitchill, continued. 



far np the streams ; land-locked in Cayuga, Seneca, and other lakes of Western 

 New York ; Lake Ontario (probably introduced with shad), and now appearing 

 in myriads in the Upper Saint Lawrence River. 



22. Clupea aestivalis Mitchill. Glut herring. 



Clupea cestivulis Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, p. 45(i; 



Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, p. 267. 

 Fomolobus cestivalis Goode <fc Bean, Bull. Essex Inst., 1879, p. 24. 

 Pomolobus pseudoharengus Gill (part), Cat. Fish. E. Coast N. A., 1873, p. 33. 

 Alosa tyrannus Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 1867, p. 156, pi. xxvi, fig. 3 (not of 



De Kay). 



Atlantic coast of the United States, entering streams, but apparently not as- 

 cending much beyond tidal waters ; it arrives later than the preceding. 



23. Clupea harengus Linnd. Sea herring. 



Clupea harengus 'Lis-s±, Syst. Nat., I, 1706, p. 522; Gt^NTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. 



Mus., vii, 1868, p. 415 ; Gill, Cat. Fish. E. Coast N. A., 1873, p. 33 ; Jordan 



& Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, p. 265. 

 Clupea elongata Le Sueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., I, p. 234 ; Storer, Rep. 



Fish., .fee, Mass., 1839, p. Ill; De Kay, Nat. Hist. N. Y., Fish., 1842, p. 



250; Storer, Hist. Fish., Mass., 1867, p. 152, pi. XXVI, fig. 1. 

 Atlantic, abundant on the European and American coasts. Spawns in the 

 fall, and has been artificially reared at Gloucester and elsewhere by the U. Fish 

 Commission. 



24. Cyprinus earpio Linn^. Carp. 



Cyprinus earpio Linn:6, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 525; GxJnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 



Mus., VII, 1868, p. 25; Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, p. 254. 

 " Varieties of the integuments :" 



" Cyprinus nudus Bloch, Fische Deutschl., iii, p. 178 (Leder-Karpfen)." 

 " Cyprinus specularis Lac£p.," Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, p, 528." 



Temperate parts of Asia, in fresh water; introduced into Europe and North 

 America ; widely distributed in the United States by the U. S. Fish Cemmiasion. 



25. Carassius auratus (L.) Bleeker. Gold-fish. 



Cyprinus auratus LiNN^;, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 527. 



Carassius auratus Blekker, "Cypr., p. 255, and Atl. Ichthyol. Cypr., p. 74;" 



GUnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., VII, 1868, p. 32; Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. 



Fish. N. A., 1883, p. 253. 

 Japan; China; introduced into Europe and the United States; now well es- 

 tablished in many of our eastern streams. 



26. Leuciscus idus (L.) subsp. orfus-L. Golden ide. 



Cyprinus or/us Linn6, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 530. 



Leuciscus orphus Cu%aER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xvii, 1844, p. 224. 



'•Idus melanotus var. Heckel & Kner, SUssAvasserf., p. 150." 



Central and northern parts of Continental Europe (Gilnther) ; introduced 

 into the United States by the U. S. Fish Commission, but not yet distributed. 



27. Tinea vulgaris (L.) Cuvier. Tench. 



Cyprinus tinea LiNNife, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 526 (trinca). 



Tinea vulgaris CuviER, Rfegne Anim., II, 1817, 193; Cuvier & Valenciennes, 



Hist. Nat. Poiss., xvi, 1842, p, 322, pi. 484 ; Gt)NTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 



VII, 1868, p. 264. 

 Europe; introduced into the United States by the U. S. Fish Commission. 

 Occasionally found in the Potomac River, into which it has escaped from the 

 ponds in Washington. 



United States National Museum, 



iVanhington, June 7, 1884. 



