322 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Mr. James Annin, jr., State superintendent of fish-culture, who fur- 

 nished the following notes on the tullibee in this lake: 



In regard to the spawning habits of the Onondaga Lake whitefish, they are spaAvn- 

 ing at present at Onondaga Lake. They generally commence running up onto the 

 shoals about November 15, and the season extends into December. They come up to 

 the banks or gravelly shoals and spawn in from 3 to 6 and 7 feet of water. They 

 have never been caught with hook in this lake, and an old fisherman told mo that 

 he had tried almost every kind of bait, and had used the very finest gut and the 

 smallest hooks baited with Gammarus (fresh-water shrimp) and other kinds of natu- 

 ral food — that is, he supposed the food was natural to them. At the same time he 

 claims he could see them in large schools lying in the water 8 or 10 feet from the 

 surface. 



17a. Argyrosomus tullibee bisselli (Bollman). 



Bissell's Tullibee. 



Coregonus tullibee bisselli Bollman, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., yiii, 1888, 223, Rawson 

 and Howard lakes, Michigan. (Type, No. 40619.) 



Similar to A. tullibee, but with maxillary reaching to middle of eye, 

 and with 80 to 82 scales in lateral line. End of supplemental maxillary 

 bone rounded. Lower jaw projecting when closed. Supraorbital bone 

 elongate pear-shaped. Head, 4^ to 4^; depth, 3^; eye, 4£ to 4§. Scales 

 anteriorly scarcely larger than those on caudal peduncle. This variety 

 of tullibee is known from small lakes in southern Michigan and bears the 

 same relation to the typical tullibee that A. artedi sisco does to the lake 

 herring. Nothing has been recorded concerning its size, abundance, 

 and habits- 



COMMON NAMES OF THE WHITEFISHES. 



A great deal of misapprehension exists among fishermen, dealers, 

 and others regarding the identity of even the common species of white- 

 fishes, and a large variety of common names is employed to designate 

 the different fishes in the same and different localities. During the 

 recent investigations of the fish and fisheries of the Great Lakes by 

 the United States Fish Commission, a special effort was made to learn 

 the common names by which each of the whitefishes is known to the 

 fishermen about the different lakes. It became apparent very soon, not 

 only that the same species is known by a great variety of names in the 

 different parts of its range, but that in a number of places a single 

 species is known by several common names; and, what is still more 

 confusing, the same common name is, in different localities, applied to 

 two or more entirely different species. 



As illustrating the improper use of common names we may take the 

 name "whitefish" or "common whitefish." In Lake Champlain " white- 

 fish "is one of the common names applied to either Coregonus clupei- 

 formis or C. labradoricus. In all of the Great Lakes it is correctly 

 applied to C. clupeiformis, though occasionally about Lake Huron and 



