24 THE GAME FISH OF NORTH AMERICA. 



2. FAMILY Si LURID.*:, 



Containing many species, Cat-Fish, Bull-Heads, &c., unworthy of 



notice, except, 

 GENUS SILURUS: 



THE GREAT CAT-FISH, Pimelodes Huron. 



3. FAMILY CYPRINID^:, 



Containing many varieties. The Chub, Sucker, Shiner, Roach, 

 Dace, Bream, &c., of no account except for bait, unless it be 

 two imported species. 



THE COMMON CARP, Cyprinus Carpio, and 



THE GOLDEN CARP, Cyprinus Auratus. 



5. FAMILY CLUPEIDJE. 

 GENUS ALOSA : 



THE SHAD,* Alosa Prastabilis. 

 -GENUS CLUPEA : 



THE HERRING, Clupea Harengus. 



6. FAMILY ESOCID^E. 

 GENUS ESTOR : 



THE MASCALONGE, Esox Estor. 



THE NORTHERN PICKEREL, Esox Isucioides. 



THE COMMON PICKEREL, Esox Reticulatus. 



THE LONG ISLAND PICKEREL, Esox Fasciatus. 



THE GARPIKE, Esox Osseus. 



Beside two or three other species, found in the Pennsylvanian 



and Western waters. 



This brings us to the end of our fresh-water, soft-fumed fishes ; or 

 of such, at least, as are in any wise worthy to be accounted Game 

 Fishes ; and we come to the second division, Acanthopterygii, or spiny- 

 named by the ignorant early settlers, still go by those stupid misnomers as in the 

 present instance, where a fish having no possible analogy to a Bass, and, indeed, 

 belonging to a different class of fish, " soft-finned," is termed Bass. The analogous 

 fish in England are known a.s Gwyniad, Vendace and Pollan. I would suggest 

 " Otsego Lavaret" as a very suitable name for this unnamed species. 



* I somewhat doubt this distinction. I have drawings, made from life, of two. 

 varieties of Shad taken in New York bay, agreeing precisely with Alosa Finta and 

 Alosa Communis, of Yarrel the Twaite and Allice Shad of England to the lat- 

 ter of which I would refer this fish. 



