422 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. [36] 



COREGONIN^. 



8. Coregonus Williamsons i Girard. Eocky Mountain White- 



fish. 



Coregonus couesii Milnek, Report U. S. Fish Comm. (1872-1873' 4874. 

 p. 88. 



" Clear streams and lakes from the Eocky Mountains 

 to the Pacific ; abundant in the Sierra Nevada." Ee- 

 cently received from Mill Creek, Oregon, whence 

 it was sent by Col. I. E. Moores. 



10608. Provo River, Utah. Dr. H. C. Yarrow. 



9. Coregonus qu a dri lateralis Eich. Shad Waiter; Eound- 



FISH. 



Lakes of New England ; Upper Great Lakes ; north- 

 westward to Alaska ; recently sent from Kodiak Isl- 

 and in the Gulf of Alaska. 



23494. Mackinaw Straits. L. Kumlien. 



10. Corcgonus clupeifbrmis (Mitch.) Milner. Common White- 



fish. 



Great Lakes ; British America ; Alaska, growing to a 



very large size in the Yukon. 

 The most important of all the species of white-fish, now 



reproduced artificially in great numbers. 



10574. Juv. Sand Island, Lake Superior. J. W. Milner. 

 28569. Ad. Detroit River. Frank N. Clark. 



11. Coregonus labradoricus Eich. Lake Whiting. 



Great Lake Eegion ; lakes of the Adirondacks, of mount- 

 ains of New England and northeastward, preferring 

 clear, cold lakes. 

 16867. Lake Winnipiscogee, New Hampshire. W. W. Fletcher. 



12. Coregonus hoyi (Gill) Jordan. Lake Moon-eye; Cisco 



(Lake Michigan) ; Smelt (Western New York). 

 Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario, in deep water ; lakes 

 of Western New York, where it sometimes dies mys- 

 teriously in great numbers. 

 32165. Skaneateles, New York. J. C. Willetts. 



13. Coregonus merkii Giinther, subsp. Mere's White-fish ; 



Nulatoski ciga (Eussian). 

 Known from Yukon Eiver and Hotham Inlet, Alaska. 

 A small species, thin and bony, of little use as food. It 



differs from typical merkii in several particulars. 



27698. Hotham Inlet, Alaska, 1880. Capt. C. L. Hooper. 



