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HISTORY OF THE FISEES OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



After this memoir on the Fishes of Massachusetts was completed, aware that several 

 species h.i<l been described during its preparation, which I had not included in my com- 

 munication, I requested Mr. Frederick W. Putnam, Curator of Ichthyology in the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, and also in the Esses: Institute, to furnish me with a list of 

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alog 



He has placed me under great obligations by sending me the accompanying 



1. Gn/sfesfasdatus, Ac. (Black Bass of the Lakes.) 



This species, which is the common lake bass and black bass of the Great Lakes, Lake 

 Champlain, and several lakes in New York, and which also extends farther south has 



been introduced into Great Sandy Lake, in Wareham 



In the Summer of 1862, a speci 



men of this fish was caught in Massachusetts Bay, by one of the members of the 



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the state cabinet 



The fish had evidently found the salt 

 water not much to its liking, as it was much emaciated, and had changed so in its gen- 

 eral appearance us at first sight hardly to be recognized. 



2. 1 ' r i acanthus alius, Gill, Procd. Philad. Ac. Nat. Sci, 1863, p. 332. 



A specimen of this most beautiful little fish was found alive on Marblehead Beach by 

 Miss Mary Nichols, of Salem, and is now in the Essex Institute. Only three other speci- 



mens are known of this species. 



3. Bryttus obesus, Gourd, Procd. Philad. Ac. Nat. Sci 



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B. S. N. H 



Syn. Pomotis obesus, Gir., Procd 



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Guard's specimens were from Framingham 



I have found it quite common 



ponds in Essex County, and also in Fresh Pond (Cambridge), and _ „ r M __ 



It is probably a widely distributed species, and may prove to have been de^ribecT by 



pond in Maiden 



some of the 



(See Gill in Procd. Philad. Ac.) 



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Crypt, Rhodes inorna/us, Gill, Procd. Philad. Ac. Nat. Sci, 1863, p. 332. 

 Have seen a specimen of this pure white Cryptaeanthodes taken off Swampscott 

 Gasierostens Wlieatlu ndi, Put*, Procd. E. I, v. p. 4, 1866. 



Specimens of this species 



H. Wheatland 



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taken at Nahant, on April 15, 1859, by the late Dr. R. 



The species is very strongly characterized 



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