AN ANNOTATED LIST OF THE FISHES KNOWN TO OCCUR IN 
THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER. 
By Barton WarREN EvERMANN and WILLIAM CONVERSE KENDALL. 
In June and July, 1894, the senior writer of this paper and Mr. 
Barton A. Bean, of the United States National Museum, made a con- 
siderable collection of fishes in the St. Lawrence River and certain of 
its tributaries in New York and Vermont. The principal stations where 
collecting was done were in the St. Lawrence River below Cape Vincent, 
near Clayton, near Alexander Bay, and below Ogdensburg; in the 
Racket River at Norfolk, and in Lake Memphremagog and Clyde 
River, Vermont. The collecting at Cape Vincent was done along the 
river shore on the New York side just above the town, and at Grass 
Bay, + miles below the town. The species seen at Clayton and 
Alexander Bay were either in the markets or live-boxes. The col- 
lecting at Ogdensburg was done on the Canadian shore of the St. 
Lawrence River, about 4 or 5 miles below the town, and around Spen- 
cer and Chimney islands, 24 species being obtained. The Racket 
River was examined one mile below Norfolk. Seining was done on 
a riffle with bed-rock bottom covered more or less by loose stones. 
Lake Memphremagog and Clyde River were seined near Newport, and 
we have already reported upon the collection in **‘ Fishes of Vermont.” 
While at Axton, in the college forest of the New York State College 
of Forestry in the spring of 1900 and 1901, Professor Evermann 
obtained a few fishes from Follingsby, Rock, and Ampersand ponds, 
all of which are tributary to the Racket River. 
Through the kindness of the late Hon. A. Nelson Cheney, of the New 
York State Fish Commission, the United States Fish Commission 
received in December, 1900, 8 specimens of the Labrador white-fish 
from Chateaugay Lake. 
The present paper is a report upon these various collections; and 
that the paper may correctly and fully represent our present knowl- 
edge of the fish-fauna of the St. Lawrence River, we have included 
all previously published references, known to us, to fishes in that’ 
river or itstributary waters. For obvious reasons we have not included 
references to the Great Lakes nor to Lake Champlain. The exact 
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