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length of about 2 feet. To this group the subgeneric name 

 Kenoza is sometimes applied; it includes the banded pick- 

 erel, the little pickerel and the chain pickerel, all of which 

 occur in New York. 



147 Lucius americanus (Gmelin) 

 Banded Pickerel 



E80X lucius -i americanus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1390, 1788, Ltong Island, New- 

 York. 



Esox niger Le Sueur, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. I, 415, 1818, Lake Sara- 

 toga, New York; Stoker. Syn. Fish. N. A. 185, 1846; Gunther, Cat. 

 Fish. Brit. Mus. VI, 229, 1866. 



Esox scomberius Mitchill, Amer. Month. Mag. II, 322, March. 1818, 

 Murderer's Creek, New York. 



Esox fasciatus De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 224, pi. 34, fig. 110, 1842, 

 streams and ponds of Long Island. 



Esox raveneli Holbrook, Ichth. S. C. 201, 1860, Charleston, S. C. 



Esox americamts Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 352, 1883; 

 Bean, Fishes Penna. 89, pi. 28, fig. 53, 1893. 



Lucius (uncricainis Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mue. 626, 

 1896, 



The banded pickerel has an elongate body; its depth con- 

 tained about five times in the total length without caudal; the 

 length of the head three and one fourth times in the standard 

 length. The snout is contained two and two thirds times in 

 the length of the head, and the eye five and one half times in 

 the same length. The maxillary extends to vertical through 

 middle of eye; the lower jaw projects considerably beyond the 

 upper. Teeth in the jaws strong, directed backwards. The 

 ventral is placed in middle of body, the dorsal and anal fins far 

 ])ack, opposite each other; their longest rays of about the same 

 length, much longer than the bases of the fins. Caudal deeply 

 eraarginate. B. 11-13; D. 11-14; A. 11-12. Scales in lateral 

 line 10.J. The body is usually dark green, sometimes brownish 

 black, above; the sides greenish yellow with about 20 dark 

 ijirved bars, which are generally very distinct; dorsal and 

 r'audal tins dark brown, the other fins lighter, sometimes red- 

 ilish; a dnrk bar from the eye to angle of jaw, another from the 

 enout tliioiigli the eye to upper edge of opercle. 



TIm' haii(l<'d ]i(kerel is probably identical with the '' mackerel 

 j.ikc " of .Mitcliill. It is a smnll fish, seldom exceodinjr 12 



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