iiAniTS or Tin: mascalonok. 22:i 



Mr l)iti's (l;irin;^'ly :it a (lead l)ait played with spiiniinLr-tacUlc, 

 or even with a siiiipU- ;;()rj;r aiul trollinj^-hooks. He is, morc- 

 ovrr, readily taken with that nmrderous instrument, the spoon, 

 or even by a bait ot" tin or red cloth, made to play (piiekly 

 tlironjjh the water. 



Before passings to tli(> next species, 1 ciinnut hiit |)ansc to 

 notice a stranj^e error of nomenclature, in Mr. Hrown's com- 

 prehensive little volume, "The American .\n'_'lei's Manual," 

 to which 1 have alluded before, by which he transforms the 

 term /t.vo/, the specific name of every member of the Pike 

 Family, as assij^ned by Linna-ns, into the Essex, which he 

 appears to conceive a distinctive term peculiar to the .Mas- 

 cnlonjje, whicli he calls "the Kssev or Mnscalin;,'a of our 

 western hikes." I note this error, not from any desire to 

 underrate a usefid and \aluable little book, but merely to ^Miard 

 ajjninst its adoption by auL'lers in ji^cneral. 



