x -AN ANNOTATED CATALOGUE OF THE FISHES KNOWN FROM 

 THE STATE OF VERMONT. 



By Barton W. Eveemann and William C. Kendall. 



This paper is based chiefly upon observations and collections made 

 in July, 1894, by the senior author and Mr. Barton A. Bean, of the 

 United States National Museum, while engaged in the investigation of 

 the waters along the Canadian border of the United States under the 

 direction of Mr. Richard Rathbun, the representative of the United 

 States on the International Fishery Commission. 



The report upon the special purpose of the investigation has been 

 made to Mr. Rathbun. The present paper is a report upon the species 

 of fishes collected or known to occur in the waters of Vermont. We 

 have included not only the species obtained in 1894, but all others 

 which have been recorded from that State by other writers. 



The only ichthyologist who has written extensively upon the fishes 

 of Vermont is the Rev. Zadock Thompson, of Burlington. In 184li 

 .Air. Thompson published his "History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, 

 and Statistical, in three parts, with a new map of the State and 

 200 engravings." Twenty five pages of this interesting and very 

 creditable volume are devoted to the fishes of the State. Not only 

 does he give a catalogue of the species known to him to occur in 

 the State, but much interesting information concerning the habits of 

 many of them. This list and the annotations are particularly valuable, 

 as they are based almost wholly upon the personal observations of Mr. 

 Thompson, who was for many years a careful and conscientious student 

 of the natural history of the region in which he lived. 



The total number of species of Vermont fishes listed by Mr. Thomp- 

 son is 48; these represent 43 species as we now understand then!. 

 Among the species, listed the following were described as new: Time- 

 lodus vulgaris (Ameiurus vulgaris), Lepisosteus Uneatus (the young of L. 

 osseus), Esox nobilior (Lucius masquinongy), and Salmoperca pellucida 

 (Percopsis guttatus). 



The following table gives the nominal species listed by Mr. Thompson, 

 together with our identification of each and the water from which each 

 was recorded. 



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