324 Fishes of Upper Georgia. 



spots are not uniform in size ; some are as large as a pin's head. Females 

 with oblong horizontal line-like spots of olive brown, more numerous 

 and smaller, and forming streaks to some extent. Fins (in $) all pale 

 orange, with many spots of brilliant dark orange; caudal faintly barred 

 with orange. Fins iu $, plain olivaceous. 



A large pale yellow blotch on the back in front of the dorsal fin, very 

 distinct in life, so that the fish may be recognized iu the water as far as 

 it cau be seen, fading in alcohol ; a pale blue blotch from eye to mouth and 

 a greenish one below it. Length 3 to 4 inches. 



Habitat. Very abundant in many tributaries of the 

 Etowah, Oostanaula, and Coosa rivers, preferring the clear, 

 cold water of the " spring branches." Most specimens from 

 Silver, Lavender, and Rocky creeks. We were unable to 

 hear any vernacular name for it. Its congener, catenata, is 

 known as the Stud-fish or Studdy-Pearch. This species is 

 probably the most beautiful in life of all our Cyprinodont 

 fishes. 



ESOCID^I. 

 E S O X Linnaeus. 



16. ESOX RETICULATUS Le Sueur. 



Esox lachts Mitchill, "Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc, I, 410" (not of Lin- 

 naeus). 



Esox reticulatus Le Sueur, "Jour. Phil. Ac. Sc, 1818, 414." Storer, "Rept. 

 Fish Mass., 97;" Synopsis, 1846, 437; Fishes Mass., 1855, 311. 

 Dekay, Fishes N. Y., 1842, 223. .Thompson, Hist. Vermont, 

 1842, 138. Ayres, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., IV, 269. ?Kirtland, 

 Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., IV, 233 (probably salmoneus). Cuv. and 

 Val., XVIII, 327. Cope, Proc. Phil. Ac. Sc, 1865, 79; Cyp. 

 Penn. (Trans. Am. Phil. Soc), 1866, 408. Giiuther, Cat. Fishes, 

 VI, 229. 

 Picorelhts reticulatus Jordan, Man. Vert. 255. 



? Esox tridecemlineatus " Mitchill, Mirror, 1825, 361." 



? Esox tridecemradiatus Dekay, Fishes N. Y., 1842, 225. 



b. var. affinis. 



? Esox phaleratus Say, LeSueur., Journ. Phil. Ac. Sc 1, 416. Dekay, 



Fishes N. Y., 226. Storer, Synopsis, 437. 

 Esox affinis Holbrook, Ich. S. C, 1860, 198. Gill, Am. Journ. 6c. Arts, 



1864, 94. Cope, Proc. Phil. Ac. Sc, 1870, 457. 

 Picorellus affinis Jordan, Man. Vert., 1876, 255 



