(5ENKKA OF (JA.MK FISH. ID 



The Common Carp {('i/jiriini.s Carj/iu). 

 Thr (loldeii Car[) {('i//trinu.s Aura(un). 

 1\ . — Family Clipkid i . 

 Cenus A I OS a. 



The Shad* (Alosu PrtvstdhiUs). 

 Genus CI it pea. 



Tlu' lli-rring I'luprit llarenyas). 

 V. — Family Esocid.k. 

 Genus Estor. 



The Mascalougc {Esox Estor). 

 Tlie Nortlicrn Pickerel [Esox Ltisioides) . 

 The Common Pickerel [Esox Reticitlatus). 

 The Long Island Pickerel {Esox Fascial us). 

 The Gar-pike {Esox ()s.teus). 



Beside two or three other 8i)ecies, found in the 

 P('nnsylv;ini;m and wcstcMMi waters. 



This brings us to the end of our fresh-water, soft-finned fishes; 

 or of suth. at lea.st, as are in anywise worthy to be accounted 

 Game Fishes ; and we come to the second division, Acanthopte- 

 ryf/ii, or spiny-finned fishes, which, though it is Baron Cuvicr's 

 fin*t division, I have postponed to the Malaroptcri/f/ii, or soft- 

 finned fishes, on account of the greater estimation in which they 

 are held, especially the noble Salmon, Pike and Shad families, 

 by both epicure and sportsman. 



Second, however, to those only are several of the families of 



* I aotiMmhat doubt thin diminction. I have drawings, mitde from life, of two 

 v»nrtic« of .Sh*d lakra in Npw York LUjr, agrmng prociMly with A lota Finla and 

 Alotn Otmmumij of Yarrrl- the Twaitc mi<I Allicr .SIumI of England — to thf lattor 

 of which I would rrfrr thU Rtli. 



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