8 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



The fishes represent 99 families. The lampreys include 4 

 species; the sharks 18 species; the catfishes 14 species, of which 

 2 are marine; suckers 9 species; minnows or carps 39 species; 

 herrings 10 species; salmon family, which includes the trout 

 and whitefish, 20 species, one half of which number have been 

 introduced; pikes 6 species; killy fishes 5 species; sticklebacks 



5 species; silversides 5 species; the mackerel family 10 species; 

 the pompano family 18 species; sunfishes 13 species; perches, 

 including the darters, 17 species; sea basses 8 species; weakfish 

 family 10 species; sculpins 8 species, equally divided between 

 the fresh and salt waters; sea robins 5 species, one of which, 

 the red gurnard, probably never occurred in our waters, though 

 it has been assigned to New York; codfishes 12 species, one of 

 them a permanent resident in fresh water ; flounders 10 species, 

 but one of these is of doubtful occurrence. 



The species whose existence in New York waters has only 

 recently been reported, and which are not numbered in this 

 catalogue, are the bullhead minnow, Cliola vigilax Baird 



6 Girard, the silver-jawed minnow, Ericymba buccata 

 Cope, silver chub, Hybopsis amblops Rafinesque, and 

 the northern darter, Etheostoma boreale Jordan. The 

 first three of these species have been found in the western part 

 of New York, and the northern darter has been recorded in the 

 basin of St Lawrence river, from Montreal to Lake Ontario. 



The names used in this catalogue are substantially those 

 employed by Jordan and Evermann in bulletin 47, United States 

 National Museum ; and I am indebted to these authors for many 

 of the descriptions of the genera. There are some departures, 

 however, from the names employed in that bulletin, for reasons 

 which appear to me satisfactory; for example, the name 

 Etrumeus sadina is discarded for the round herring, 

 and the specific name t e r e s of De Kay is used in its stead, 

 because Mitchill's type bore a close resemblance to the shad. 

 It has a spot behind the gill cover, a wide and<toothless mouth, 

 a projecting lower jaw, and 15 anal rays. There is no prob- 

 ability that Mitchill had the' round herring before him for this 

 description. 



