[89] FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 475 



Genus SALVELINUS Richardson. 



84. Salvelimis fontinalis (Mitch.) Gill & Jor. Brook Trout; 

 Speckled Trout. 



Rivers and lakes of British North America northward 

 to the Arctic Circle; United States westward to 

 Dakota and southward to North Carolina, prin- 

 cipally east of the Alleghanies. 



This is a very abundant, widely distributed, and beau- 

 tiful game fish ; the object of much care on the part 

 of State fish commissions and fish culturists for its 

 preservation and multiplication. Like its relative 

 8. malma of the west, it grows largest in cold north- 

 ern waters. 



16098. Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Dr. L. H. Taylor. 

 20950. Ridgewood, Long Island. E. G. Blackford. 



HYODONTIME. 



Genus HYODON Le Sueur. 

 8«S. Vtjodmi alosoietes" (Raf.) Jor. & Gilb. Moon-eye. 



Hyodon chrysopsis Rich., F. B. — A., Ill, 1836, p. 232. 



Upper Mississippi Valley northward to the Saskatcha- 

 wan. 

 8443. Red River of the North. R. Kennicott. 



CLUPEnm 



Genus CLUPEA Linne\ 

 Subgenus Meletta Valenciennes. 



86. Cliipea vernalis Mitchill. Alewife; Branch Herring; 



Gaspereau. 



Atlantic coast of North America from Newfoundland 

 to Florida, ascending far up the streams ; land-locked 

 in Cayuga, Seneca, and other lakes of Western New 

 York ; Lake Ontario (probably introduced with shad), 

 and now appearing iu myriads in the Upper Saint- 

 Lawrence River. 



This is a food-fish of great importance. It is distin- 

 guished from the Glut Alewife or Herring by its 

 higher fins, pale peritoneum, and larger eye. 

 32562. (Two spec.) North Carolina, March 23, 1883. Dr. T. H. Bean. 



