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with round white spots; a magnificent fish, reaching a 

 length of 6 feet; B. 19; D. 19 to 21; A. 20; lat. 1. 155. 

 Great Lakes, etc. (E. estor of some authors.) 



2. . lucius, L., var. estor, (LeSueur.) GREAT LAKE 

 PIKE. NORTHERN PICKEREL. Cheeks entirely scaly; 

 depth 7 in length; head 3; olive gray; sides with round 

 yellowish spots as large as peas; each scale with a shining 

 V-shaped mark opening downwards; B. 15; D. 20; A. 17; 

 lat. 1. 122. Great Lakes and headwaters of the Missis- 

 sippi. A fine species reaching a length of 3 to 4 feet. 

 (E. lucius, lucioides, boreus, etc., of authors.) 



2. PICORELLUS, Rafinesque. PICKERELS. 



* Branch iostegals 14 to 16; snout prolonged; front of eye nearly 

 midway in head. 



1. P. reticu/afus, (LeSueur) Jordan. COMMON EAST- 

 ERN PICKEREL. GREEN PIKE. Head 3^ in length; the 

 snout much prolonged; front of eye about midway in 

 head; eye more than three times in snout; green, sides 

 with a network of brown streaks; B. 14 to 16; D. 16 to 

 18; A. 15 to 17; lat. 1. 120 to 130. Streams of Atlantic 

 States abundant, but not found far in the interior; smaller 

 than the preceding, but much larger than the next. 

 Represented S. of Va. by P. affinis. (Holbr.) 



** Branchiostegals normally 12; front of eye nearer tip of snout. 



2. P. americanus, (Lac.) Jordan. BANDED PICKEREL. 

 TROUT PICKEREL. Head ,3f in length, the snout much 

 shorter than in the preceding; eye much nearer snout 

 than opercular margin, its diameter less than 3 in snout; 

 dark green; sides with about twenty distinct blackish 

 curved bars, scarcely reticulated; B. 12; D. 13; A. 13; 

 lat. 1. 100; length scarcely a foot. Atlantic streams, with 



