Catalogue of the Fishes of Connecticut. 69 



Family Fistularidm. 



*95. Fistularia serrata, Bloch, Tobacco Pipe-fish, Massachu- 

 setts. 



Family Salmonidce. 



96. Salmo fontinalis, Mitchill, Brook Trout, common. 

 *97. Salmo erythrogaster, Dekay, Red-bellied Trout, Housa- 

 tonic. 



*98. Salmo Salar, Linn., Salmon, Connecticut River. 



99. Osmerus eperlanus, Artedi, Smelt, Stratford. 



*100. Scopelus Humboldti ? the Argentine, Massachusetts. 



Family Clvpidce. 



*101. Clupea elongata, Le Sueur, Common Herring, Stratford. 

 *102. Clupea fasciata, Le Sueur, Fasciated Herring, New 

 Haven. 



*103. Clupea minima, Peck, the Brit, Massachusetts. 



*95. The tolacco-pipe-Jish is found from Brazil to Massachusetts ; and is probably 

 at times in our Sound, although I have not known of one being so obtained. 



*97. It has long been known as an adage, " as red as a Housatonic trout." The 

 largest I have seen here weighed about 2pounds. I then (1840) knew of but one 

 species. Mr. Nettleton, of Orange, one of the greatest and most expert trout 

 catchers in New England, assures me he has often taken this trout, or answering ex- 

 actly to Dr. Dekay's figure and description of this species, Plate 39, fig. 2, of his 

 report on the New York Fauna. 



*98. The delicious salmon, once very abundant in the Connecticut river, is now 

 nearly or quite extinct, except occasionally in the course of years one is taken in a 

 shoal seine, near the mouth of the river. Dr. Barratt has published a very inter- 

 esting paper suggesting some means for restoring this excellent fish again to this 

 river. His plan is predicated upon the principle that this fish returns annually to 

 the same river in which it was spawned. His plan is worthy an attempt, although 

 it will require a different construction of all the mill-dams to afford the fish the ca- 

 pacity to ascend over them in its annual return. 



*100. The argentine is undoubtedly very rare, though it has been found at Na- 

 hant, in Massachusetts, in the stomach of a haddock, and may probably be found 

 in Connecticut. 



*101. I obtained the common herring picked up fresh on our shore, Nov. 3, 1842, 

 and on the same day took a perfect specimen from the stomach of the great heron, 

 {Ardea herodias, Linn.,) the only individuals I have seen here. 



*102. The fasciated herring I found in a seine in New Haven harbor, drawn for 

 white-fish, and found it not very uncommon. The difference between these two 

 species will easily be seen by comparing them together. 



*103. The hrit I have seen by such myriads pouring into the bay of Massachu- 

 setts, as would serve to render it almost impossible but some of the little fellows 

 should reach our Sound; although scholes of the voracious blue-fish were devour- 

 ing them by thousands and probably millions. 



