Ouiida l.aki- l-islus 4" 



1). -'<>>) found tlu-m eatiiiK Perch at Walnut Lake. Six <if the nnic caufjnt ha<l 

 caicn IVrch antl nuthinj,' else, ami one had eaten three darters. In the Whitefish 

 I'oint rejiion he found a Mud Minnow, a leech, and a sculpin in stomachs of small 

 pike ('lOa, p. 14S). KeiKhard ('15. p. .'-'9). in treating of this sjiecies in 

 Douglas I^ike. Michigan, says that seven of the twenty-two stomachs examined 

 contained the remains of fish, while the rest were enii)ty ; and he found no evidence 

 that in midsummer, the time of the investigations, the Dminlas I^ke I'ike took 

 other food than fish, and he notes that in two cases i'erch. ahout four inches long, 

 were found in I'ike stomachs. Henshall ('19. p. I3tjt says it feeds on fish, frogs 

 and water snakes. Wilson (20. p. 226) found an adult of this si)ecies eating 

 dra.tfon-fly nymphs. Marshall and GillK-rt (05, p. 517) found minnows in seven- 

 teen of twenty-two siiecimens of Rsox Indus ; al.so a Lcf^oiiiis incisor in one, a 

 small lisox in one, crawfish in one and leeches in one. Mut two of the Pike con- 

 tained food other than fish. Needham {'J2. j). 30) says the Northern I'ike in 

 Lake ( leorge is undouhtedly the mo.st active and exclusive fish eater there, and 

 lie notes that records of examinations extending over many years at Cayug? I^ke, 

 \. v.. show them to be almost e.xclu.sively fish eaters. Clemens ('24. p. 124) 

 reveals the character of the foixl of twenty-three s|n'cimens of fisox liuius from 

 l^ike N'ipigon. of size ranging from 3' .i inches to 40 inches. .\ll liut two had fish 

 in their stomachs, these l>eing of various s])ecies, but soft-rayed forms were most 

 often represented. Two spiny-rayed fish. Perch ( /'. flavcscctis) and Pike Perch 

 (.V vilrtHiii), were present. The two specimens that contained no fish remains 

 had eaten a short tailed shrew (KUirimj brci-icduda ) . in one case, and a leech in the 

 other. Dytnond ('26, p. 73) gives a general conclusion as to the ftH)d of lisox 

 ludiis in I^ike Nipigon. He says: "Here it feeds on the smaller fish inhabiting 

 such situations, hut does not scorn anything in the way of animal foiKl that comes 

 within its reach, as is attested by the variety of creatures that have lieen found in 

 it- stom.ich " 



Ibe food III tweiitv-four Pike from I ireen l.;ike. Wisconsin, is descrilnil by 

 Pearse ('21. p. J'l.^t. These I'ike ranged in si/e from aUmt 4 inches to alxuit 2<» 

 iiiihes. I'ish. principally minnows, had la-en eaten by nearly all : hut Percli 

 remains were found in one. Plants and ostraciwls were present in small amounts. 



nislrihiitioii Niiords. We ma<le the following collections of the s|)ccies in 

 shallow water (three feet and under): No 434. Norcross Point; No. 475, Long 

 Point Peninsula: No. 50J. luiy west of Lewis Point: Nos. 515 and 5if>. l-'ish 

 (reek: .No. 517. .Sylvan Meach : No. 524. Short Point May. 



We obtained front the I'.rewerton fish market .Nos 3110 and «>2S|{ 



liiiiiiiics and Pisrnsi'. The Pike apju-ar to have few enemies other than man. 

 who shfMits them at their s|iawning time in early spring and captures theni by hook 

 and in other ways. Pre<lacious animals, also, imdoubie<lly capture them, l-owler 

 (13. p 131 cites an instance in iMirojH' where an I »sprey skeleton was fmmd 

 aiiached to the kick of a large lisox liiiius and siiys that similar stories of other 

 liiropean birds, as .Sea Lagles. have Ix-en tolil. 



The fish apjK'ars to Ik- rather heavily infested with parasitic wnnns. and some- 

 times there is a prejudice aKaiii"! usinj: it for fiMKl on account of its "wc»nny flesli" 

 ( ILiiikiiiMin. 'i(>. p. 140 t. Two markit \\-h. said to have come from •">neida I.akc. 



