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352 Fishes of the Ohio. 
* Length sixteen inches, by about four inches and 
, a half in depth. 
5£B. 7; P: 19; D. 9. 30; T. 1:5; A. 2. 7; C. 18.55 
“ This species inhabits Lake Eie. 2: 
Observations.: After a careful examination, I am 
convinced that the fish of the Lakes, which Le Sueur 
designates as the S. oscula, and that of the Ohio, to 
which he gives the name of S. grisea, are specifical- _ 
ly identical. It is true, that the former when full 
grown, is poor in flesh, with a tough and thick skin, 
-~ which renders it hardly eatable, while the latter is 
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always fat, tender, and delicious ; a difference, I be- 
lieve, to be imputed solely to the character and qual- 
ity of the waters in which they are found. All the 
species of fish common to the waters of the Ohio and 
to Lake Erie, are decidedly more tender, fat, and del- 
icáte, with thinner skins, when found in the river 
streams, than when taken in the Lake. "The varia- 
tion in the number of rays in the fins of those from 
the two localities, observed by Le Sueur, was probably 
accidental ; for I find that it often can be detected in 
several specimens taken i in the same locality. | 
Our drawing was made from a small fish obtained 
in the Cincinnati market. The first, short, spinous; 
anal ray, should not have been omitted in " figure. 
(To be continued.) 
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