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B. 12;D. 12; A. 11; Y. 9. Scales, 24-110. The maxilla reaches^ 

 to below the middle of the pupil. The mandible projects -h of 

 an inch when the mouth is closed. The diameter of the eye is- 

 contained five and two thirds times in length of head. The 

 stomach was empty, but insect remains were voided from the 

 vent. 



Colors. About 20 oblique, interrupted, dark bands on the 

 body; a narrow oblique dark band under the eye and four rather 

 large dark blotches on the cheek and opercle; pectorals, ven- 

 trals and anal orange; a tinge of orange on the dorsal and 

 caudal; general color olivaceous gray, with golden reflections; 

 lower parts creamy white; iris lemon mingled with pale brown; 

 peritoneum silvery. 



All the pickerels are liable to fungus attacks without appar- 

 ent cause, but, as a rule, they can be cured by the salt water 

 treatment. Their food consists of small live killifish, which 

 they approach slowly and deliberately till within 5 or 6 inches, 

 when they rush, seize, and stop as abruptly as if stopped by 

 an obstruction. 



Eugene Smith says this pickerel is often found in brackish 

 water in the vicinity of Xew York, and is then more brown in 

 color. L. reticulatus is found also on Long Island close 

 to salt water, as at Water Mill. 



148 Lucius vermiculatus (Le Sueur) 



Little Pickerel 



Esox vermiculatus Le Sueur in Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist, Nat. Poiss. 



XVIII, 333, 1&46, Wabash River, Indiana. 

 Esox crassus Agassiz, Am. Jour. Sci. Arts, 808, 1854, Tennessee River, 



Huntsville, Alabama. 

 Esox umbrosus Kiktland, Proc. Cleveland Ac. Sci. 79, 1854, Rockport, near 



Cleveland, Ohio; Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. Phila. 400, 1866. 

 Esox ciipho Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 78, 1865, Waterford, Michigan; 



Gu-NTiiER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. VI, 230, 1866. 

 Esox porosus Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. Phila. 408, 1866, substitute for 



cy ph o . 

 Eaox salnwneus Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 352, 1888. 

 Esox vermiculatus Bean, Fishes Penna. 90, pi. 28, fig. 54, 1898. 

 Lucius rcnuiculatus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 627, 



1896. 



