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Coreyonus lioiji Jordan, Man. Vert. ed. 2, 275, 1878; Jokdan & Gilbert, 

 Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 299, 1883; Smith, Bull. U. s. F. C. XIV, 6, 

 pi. 1, fig. 1, 189. 



Head, four; depth, four and four sevenths; eye, five (nearly); 

 snout, three and one half; maxillary, nearly three in head, reach- 

 ing to vertical through front of pupil. D. 10; A. 11. Scales, 

 8_70-9. Gill rakers, 14+28, left side, 40 on right side, longest 

 about l inch, about two in eye. Branchiostegals, 8. Body rather 

 elongate, compressed, the back little elevated; mouth rather 

 large, terminal, the lower jaw slightly longer than upper when 

 the mouth is closed; tip of muzzle conical as in A. artedi;. 

 mandible nearly reaching vertical through posterior edge of 

 eye, nearly two in head; head rather long and slender, with 

 pointed snout; interorbital width equal to eye; supraorbital 

 and preorbital long and narrow; distance from tip of snout to 

 occiput two in distance from occiput to origin of dorsal tin; 

 dorsal rays much longer anteriorly than posteriorly, the longest 

 ray nearly equal to distance from front of pupil to end of head, 

 the last ray only one third as long; longest anal ray two and 

 one half in head, last anal ray two fifths as long as the longest; 

 I)seudobranchiae well developed; tongue with evident teeth. 

 Color in spirits silvery, with purplish iridescence on back; scales 

 without punctulations; belly wiiitish; dorsal and caudal fins 

 dark on terminal half, pale at base; other fins all pale. Length, 

 without caudal, 8 inches; total length, 9-| inches; depth 1| 

 inches; head, 2^, inches; eye, -nr inch; maxilla, H inch; interorbital 

 width equal to diameter of eje. 



^Ii- Annin wrote me that the people at Canandaigua lake told 

 him Ihal Hicre were large quantities of small lake shiners, as 

 they are called, in the lake. A fisherman said that they are seen 

 m immense schools at the top of the water occasionally, and, by 

 liiiiig a gun loaded with shot into tliem, men can stun them so 

 iis to i>i(k \\\> (piilc a number. They are eagerly sought after for 

 (loMiiig liail for the sajmon front found in that lake. 



This sjx'cics is icrorded with certainty from Lake Michigan 

 oiilv. It is taken in gill nets in dccj) water and, notwithstand- 

 ing its sni:ill si'/c, Ims bocome commercially important. It is 



