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before lie is subduetl. I rcj;anl him :i \ery decided addition to 

 the list of Ainerieuu Sporting Fishes. 



The CDnjinoii llcrriiii; can he taken very readily in the same 

 manner, and 1 have had very eonsideral)le amnsi'inciit in killing 

 them with a gandy peacoek-tail fly, in New York harbour, in 

 the vieinity of Tort DianuMul, at the Narrows. 



With these exceptions, and tlie two \arieties of W'hiti; Fish, 

 one of which is absurdly misnamed Otscj^o Bass, haxiuir abont 

 as mnch relation to a Bass as it has to a Flouudir, all that I 

 have named are admitti-d t() bi' game by all tislurmen ; ami 

 these I have mentioned, becansc I have little or no doubt that 

 they also, like their F^uropcan congeners, the (Iwyniad of Wales 

 antl the Pollan of Ireland, may be occasionally taken with the 

 artificial fly. 



All these fish are Coregoni, and are \ery nearly analogons to 

 one another, forming a sort of intermediate link between the 

 families of Salmonidie and Clnpeidte, or Salmon and Shad, al- 

 though they are included for many satisfactory reasons among 

 the former— the common people in Great Britain calling them 

 fresh-water Herring, while in the I'nited States they not unfre- 

 quently pass by the name of Shad-salmon. 



The flesh of all the varieties is delicate and hi^'hly lla\omcd. 

 The desire of comparing these American Coreyoni with the 

 British varieties, and of bringing them somewhat more into 

 general notice, luis induced me to mention them, rather than 

 their game nature. 



I now proceed to the sak-waicr tishes, both those taken in 

 deep, and those in shoal water, of the vnriouH families above 

 named ; and thereafter ^hall arrange them according to their 

 hannts and habits. 



