FISHES OF NEW YORK 9 



The glut herring in my list is called Clupea cyanonoto)i 

 Storer; MitchilFs name, aestivalis, appears to be a synonym 

 ofmediocris and mattowaca of the same author. Its 

 relation to the hickory shad was long since pointed out by Dr 

 Gill. Mitchill stated that the fish has seven or eight dark 

 roundish spots extending in the direction of the lateral line. 

 His figure shows a row of eight dark spots on the side extending 

 to the end of the dorsal fin on the level of the eye. 



The name Ooregonus labradoricus, for the Labra- 

 dor whitefish, is omitted because that species is identical with 

 the common whitefish. The characters by which the Labrador 

 whitefish were supposed to be distinguished are untenable, pre- 

 cisely the same characters being found in the whitefish and 

 there being no other basis of separation. 



The author has discovered that Kirtlandia laciniata 

 Swain is identical with K. vagrans Goode & Bean. 



The species Querimana gyrans is believed to be the 

 young of Mugil trichodon Poey ; and the genus Queri- 

 mana was found to be the young state of Mugil. 



The name Neomaenis blackfordi is retained for the 

 red snapper for the reasons clearly given in the 19th Report of 

 the Commissioners of Fisheries of New York, 1890. There is 

 absolutely no proof that the name a y a should be applied to 

 this species. 



The synonymy given for the species is limited usually to 

 authors who wrote specially on the fishes of New York, or ad- 

 jacent regions, and to the well known general catalogues of 

 recent writers on ichthyology. One principal aim has been to 

 give as many references as possible to illustrations of species. 



The descriptions of the fishes are based chiefly on collections 

 studied by the author, many of which were obtained in his own 

 field work. The results of investigations made by parties for 

 the United States Fish Commission have also been incorporated 

 in the text. 



Illustrations of the species would have added greatly to the 

 report; but the time was not available for obtaining drawings 



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