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AMERICAN FISHES 



ABDOMINAL 



MALACOrTERYGII. 



SAK,N>ON1D^. 



THE MASAMACUSH 



HOOD'S CHARR. 



Sabno Hoodii ; Richardson. 



This beautiful fish is given on the authority of Dr. Richardson, by 

 whom it appears to have been first described, although discovered by 

 Lieutenant Hood, in Pine Island lake, latitude 54°. 



It is not a little remarkable that this fish should have so long re- 

 mained unknown, as it is stated by its describer " to be common in 

 every lake and river from Canada to the northern extremity of the 

 continent." Whether this includes the great lakes above the Fallsof 

 Niagara, it is not stated, although the language would authorise that 

 interpretation ; no distinct mention is made of it, however, as having 

 been taken south of the Mingan river, which empties into the estuary 

 of St. Lawrence somewhere about the latitude of 50° ; all the other 

 specimens described being taken in Winter lake, or in the waters of 

 Boothia Felix ; it is scarcely possible, however, but that it must be 

 found to the southward of this line, to justify the words of so accurate 

 and correct a writer as Dr. Richardson. 



At all events, the Mingan river is in Canada proper, in the lord- 



