AN ANNOTATED LIST OF THE FISHES KNOWN TO OCCUR IN 
LAKE CHAMPLAIN AND ITS TRIBUTARY WATERS. 
By Barron WARREN EVERMANN AND WILLIAM CONVERSE KENDALL. 
This paper is based primarily upon observations and collections 
made in the Lake Champlain basin in July, 1894, by the senior writer 
of this article and Mr. Barton A. Bean, of the United States National 
Museum. At that time collections were made at Rouses Point, in 
Missisquoi Bay, at Alburg Springs, on the west shore of Hog Island, 
in Saranac River near Plattsburg, and in Scioto Creek near Coopers- 
ville, N. Y. Subsequently a small collection was received by the Fish 
Commission from Mr. A. L. Collins, of Swanton, Vt.; another consid- 
erable collection from Mr. John W. Titcomb, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., 
made by him in Caspian Lake, at the headwaters of Lamoille River, 
November 10, 1898, and a few specimens have been received from 
various other sources, among them a small collection made by Dr, 
Evermann in Upper Saranac Lake, in 1901. 
To make the list complete and more useful as a faunal catalogue, 
we have included all species known to us to inhabit Lake Champlain 
or its tributary waters. We have aimed to include all references of 
which we have found any definite record and a bibliography of the 
papers in which they occur. The titles are arranged chronologically. 
Under each is given a list of the species mentioned in it, the page 
upon which the record occurs, and our identification of each species in 
current nomenclature. In the formal list of species reference is made 
to the authority for the record. 
The total number of species known to inhabit the Lake Champlain 
basin is only 54. Doubtless this list will be considerably enlarged 
whenever its waters are more thoroughly studied. As a matter of 
fact only the most desultory collecting has been done either in the 
lake or its tributaries. Practically nothing has ever been published 
concerning the fishes of the great multitude of small lakes and streams 
in the Adirondacks, many of which are tributary to Lake Champlain; 
and, Zadock Thompson’s list excepted, but little has been published 
even of the fishes inhabiting the lake itself. In 1896 the present 
writers published a list of the fishes known from the State of Vermont.* 
The total number of species included was 53, 45 of which were from 
the Lake Champlain basin. The present paper adds 9 species to the 
Champlain list. 
2An annotated list of the fishes known from the State of Vermont. <Report U.S. Fish Commission 
for 1894 (1896), 579-604. 
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