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  la 
  fact, 
  the 
  two 
  forms 
  were 
  so 
  similar 
  in 
  general 
  appeal'-' 
  

   ance 
  that 
  if 
  taken 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  basket 
  they 
  could 
  hardly 
  

   fail 
  of 
  being 
  declared 
  the 
  same 
  fish. 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  thus 
  hastily 
  and 
  incompletely 
  compared 
  the 
  two 
  

   fishes, 
  and 
  liave 
  endeavored 
  to 
  give 
  in 
  Fig, 
  8, 
  PI. 
  V, 
  an 
  ac- 
  

   curate 
  representation, 
  excepting 
  the 
  scale 
  series, 
  of 
  the 
  Rar- 
  

   itan 
  river 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  Smelt. 
  

  

  I 
  can 
  arrive 
  at 
  no 
  other 
  conclusion, 
  from 
  seeing 
  and 
  ex- 
  

   amining 
  both 
  forraS; 
  and 
  from 
  knowing 
  the 
  differences 
  which 
  

   geographical 
  distribution 
  brings 
  about, 
  than 
  that 
  arrived 
  at 
  

   by 
  Mitchill 
  in 
  1818. 
  '' 
  It 
  is 
  beyond 
  a 
  doubt 
  the 
  Smelt 
  of 
  the 
  

   European 
  naturalists." 
  To 
  it 
  then 
  justly 
  belongs 
  the 
  name 
  

   of 
  Osmerus 
  (Artedi) 
  eperlanus, 
  (Rondelet), 
  Lacepede. 
  I 
  have 
  

   accordingly 
  given 
  it 
  this 
  name 
  in 
  the 
  preceding 
  papers. 
  

   If 
  it 
  is 
  ever 
  necessary 
  to 
  designate 
  the 
  two 
  forms, 
  the 
  Amer- 
  

   ican 
  form 
  can 
  be 
  called 
  0. 
  ejjerlanus 
  var. 
  viridescens. 
  

  

  — 
  0- 
  

  

  SYNOMYMY 
  OF 
  THE 
  ATLANTIC 
  SMELT. 
  

  

  (OSMEEUS 
  eperlanus) 
  . 
  

  

  A. 
  European 
  Form. 
  

  

  Eperlanus— 
  Rondelet, 
  Pars. 
  II, 
  page 
  19G 
  ; 
  Belon, 
  De 
  Aquat. 
  

   page 
  288 
  ; 
  Gcsner, 
  Aquat. 
  page 
  362, 
  

   Thierb. 
  page 
  189; 
  Aldrov. 
  IV, 
  c. 
  12, 
  page 
  

   536 
  ; 
  Jonston, 
  II, 
  c. 
  2, 
  t. 
  24, 
  f. 
  3 
  ; 
  Charlet 
  

   Onom. 
  page 
  153, 
  n. 
  3 
  ; 
  Ray, 
  Synop. 
  page 
  

   66, 
  n, 
  14. 
  

  

  Eper. 
  Rondeletii— 
  Willoughby, 
  page 
  202, 
  tab. 
  N. 
  6, 
  f. 
  4. 
  

  

  Spirinchus— 
  Jonston, 
  t. 
  47, 
  f. 
  6 
  ; 
  Schonov. 
  page 
  70, 
  tab. 
  7. 
  

  

  Salmo, 
  sp. 
  — 
  Gronovius, 
  Zoophy, 
  page 
  122, 
  n. 
  373, 
  Mus. 
  I. 
  

   page 
  18, 
  n. 
  49. 
  

  

  Salmo 
  eperlanus— 
  Linn. 
  Sys. 
  Nat. 
  1, 
  page 
  511 
  ; 
  Ruysch, 
  

   Theat. 
  page 
  78, 
  tab. 
  24, 
  figure 
  3 
  ; 
  Plooh. 
  

   1, 
  page 
  179, 
  taf. 
  28, 
  figure 
  2 
  ; 
  Bl. 
  Schu. 
  

  

  