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On the Fishes of the Winnipisseogee. 343 
Coreconus Neo-Hantontensis. The Whiting.—Length 
eighteen inches; weight two pounds; greatest diameter two 
inches, or one-ninth its length ; greatest height three and seven- 
tenths inches, or the height in proportion to its length is about 
one to five; least height, in front of the caudal fin one and three- 
tenths inches. Body compressed ; scales large. Lateral line 
commences at the superior angle o of the operculum, and proceeds 
in a direct line to the middle of the tail. Head small, arched 
and conical, and its length is contained more than five and a half 
times in the whole length of the fish. Mouth small and eee 
less. Diameter of the. eye half an inch; distance between the 
eyes one inch. Distance from extremity of j jaws to the eye eight 
tenths of an inch; to first dorsal seven and two-tenths inches; to 
second do. thirteen inches; to pectoral three and two-tenths 
inches; to ventral same as first dorsal; to anal twelve inches. 
Base of first dorsal equal to the diameter of the body, height of 
longest rays two and three-tenths inches, shortest six-tenths ‘inch ; 
_ height of pectorals four times their length; ventral three times 
higher than long ; anal longer than high. Caudal deeply furcated, 
distance between extremities of bifurcation five inches. 
olor: head and back, olive brown; sides lustrous and silvery, 
beneath white ; ‘dorsal fins brown, pectorals and ventrals white 
‘Margined with br own; operculum silvery with golden reflections, 
aperenia a Semnt play of colors; pupils black; irides metal- 
white. 
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4. Lora prosmrana, Storer.—In the paper read before the ys 
- Clation this fish was referred to asa Cusk. This error arose 
the circumstance that this fish is so called by the Phebus 
about the Winunipisseogee, from its close resemblance to a cusk 
T had not then seen ee Storer’s description of it. The name in 
the west is Hel Pou 
In justice to Dr. Sep I substitute his description as published 
in the Boston Journal of Natural History Yo vol. iv, p. 58, instead of 
I mon swash most of our fresh-water fishes , there ig consid- 
erable difference in the color of the Lota. Whilst there are 
many fuliginous spots on those from the lake, there are few or. 
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