recent!}'- ther have i'aiied to appear in tliejn ; or, as in theN. 

 W. Bra.ucli of the Pata))scu, only a lew now enter to rnn lu- 

 wai'ds the ire.shcr vraters. 



While, in tlic oyster distriets, the Drum,8heepshead, I'orgy, 

 Bay Trout, and Bluc-fhsli or Tailoi-, Ibrm the principal fisheries, 

 in the hriiiy waters ol' t)ie hnver parts of the B:iy and its 

 estuaries, the Pii;--lish and kSpot are juosthi-^'hly eh-leenied and 

 sougdit for. 



Sine[)uxeut Bay and lis conticcting inlelr. are well sup]>]ied 

 with. Tailors, Bay Trout, Spots, JJruiu, 8heei)shead, Yellow- 

 tail, (called White Tercli there,) Black Pei-eh, and Black 

 Will. In tlie Monocacy, upper Potomac and Susquehanna 

 above tide-v/ater, the Fall iisli and a variety of .smaller kinds 

 of the same group form no inconsiderable part of the food (^f 

 t!ie districts. All the tributaries of the upper Potomac are 

 nov/ stocked, more or less considerably, with the Black Bass, 

 which is eagerly fished for hy the people of the adjacent 

 counties. , 



Nor are the various s])ecies of Pike overlooked in the slug- 

 •i-ish streams Iving Jiear to tide-water; but, one of which, thy 

 Bsox rdk'ulaius , is sent in winter in large numbers to P)alti- 

 niore, and from this place is distributed by rail and wagon to 

 the farmers of Carroll, Fi'edei'ick and Baltinio)-e counties. 



The present list embraces q\cyx species of lish, certainly 

 known by one or other member of our Section of Ichthyology, 

 to have been caught in Maryland waters, excepting a few only 

 of which the names have not yet been ascertained. Every 

 opportunity has l>een end)raced to obtain full series ot the 

 fish of this State, and the results of this activity may be seen 

 in the lar<;'e collection of sjtecimens now on exhibition in tiie 

 Museum of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, and. where 

 they are daily oj)en to the ins]iection of tlie public, iVee of 

 char!f>'e for admission. 



To the kind attentions of Pj-ofcssors Baird auvl Gill wt; are 

 iixdebted for advice and aid, in 1 lie recognition ot' the Jatcs' 

 svstem of nomenclature in the Uirger groups, atid in tlie 

 names of particular fish. 



