296 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



This fish grows to the length of 1 foot and is, therefore, too 

 small to have much importance for food. 



149 Lucius reticulatus (Le Sueur) 

 Chain Pickerel; Ch'een Pike 



Esox reticulatus Le Sueuk, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. I, 414, 1818, Con- 

 necticut River, Adams, Mass.; Philadelphia, Pa.; De Kay, N. Y.- 

 Fauna, Fishes, 223, pi. 34, fig. 107, 1842; Kirtland, Bost. Jour. Nat. 

 Hist. IV, 233, pi. X, fig. 2, 1844; Gunthee; Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. VI, 

 229, 1866; Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 353, 1883,. 

 Bean, Fishes Penna. 90, pi. 29, fig. 55, 1893. 



Esox tridecemlmeatus Mitchile, Mirror, 361, 1825, Oneida Lake, N. Y. 



Esox phaleratus (Say) Le Sueur, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. I, 416, 1818,. 

 St Augustine, Fla. 



Esox affinis Holbrook, Ichth. S. C. 198, 1860, Charleston, S. O. 



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

 1896; Evermann & Kendall, Kept. U. S. Commr. Fish & Fisherie8> 

 for 1894, 597, 1896; Mearns, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. X, 317,^ 

 1898; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXI, 344, 1898. 



The chain pickerel has a long and slender body, its depth near- 

 the middle equaling about two thirds of the length of the head 

 and contained five to six times in the total without caudal. The- 

 caudal peduncle is slender, its depth little more than one third 

 of greatest depth of body. The snout is long and pointed, aa 

 long as the postorbital part of the head and about three times. 

 the length of the eye, which is one seventh to one eighth of 

 length of head. The dorsal base equals two fifths of length ot 

 head, its longest ray equal to snout. The anal begins under the 

 third or fourth ray of the dorsal, its longest ray nearly one half 

 as long as the head. Caudal deeply forked. Ventral half way 

 from tip of snout to end of scales, its length equal to snout and 

 slightly greater than length of pectoral. B. 15; D. 15; A. 14. 

 Scales in lateral line about 125. The cheeks and opercles are 

 completely scaled. 



The color is usually greenish, sometimes brown or almost 

 black. On the sides are many narrow, dark lines connected by 

 cross streaks, forming a network which suggested the name 

 r e t i c u 1 .1 1 u s . Occasionally the body is uniform greenish, as^ 

 in a specimen taken in the Potomac river a few vears ago. In' 

 the young I Ik- reticulations are very obscure, and a pale stripe- 



