THE PIKE FAMILY. 147 



GREAT BLUE PIKE. 



This fish has a broad short snout, which is very different 

 from the ducklike bill of the Pond Pike ; its head resembling 

 what one might imagine the produce of the bulldog and 

 greyhound would be. It has a formidable array of broad 

 lancet-looking teeth. I have the head of a specimen, sent 

 from Meadville, Pennsylvania, in a jar of alcohol, which 

 measures twenty-five inches in circumference; after large 

 slices of it being cut off, to get it into the jar. 



Mr. Wilson, who keeps the gun and fishing-tackle store in 

 Chestnut Street below Fifth, Philadelphia, has the dried head 

 of a Pike of the same species in his window, with its two 

 rows of teeth all complete ; it is worth examining. 



This fish is found in the lakelets and in the streams that are 

 tributary to the Ohio, in the south-western part of New York, 

 Pennsylvania, and North-western Virginia. A friend tells me 

 it takes a live bait nine or ten inches long, and pulls like 

 a Shetland pony. It has been taken weighing as much 

 as eighty pounds in Connaught Lake in Bradford County, 

 Pennsylvania. 



THE LITTLE POND PIKE OF LONG ISLAND. 



In olden times on Long Island there was a small Pike 

 which bothered the fly-fisher a great deal, rising at the fly 

 and insisting on being caught. Frank Forester describes 

 it at length in his book as Esox fasdatus. 



