FISHES OF NEW YORK 235 



taken in 18S5 in Lake Erie. These are caught chiefly in pound 

 iind gill nets. The catch in 1885 amounted to more than one 

 third of the entire quantit}^ of fishes taken in thrs lake. There 

 is no apparent diminution in the number of these fishes, and 

 their artificial propagation has not been practised. 



A male and a female were forwarded by Mr Annin from Three- 

 mile bay, Lake Ontario, Nov. 22 and 25, 1895. 



MEASUREMENTS 



Lfength. including caudal 



Length of middle caudal rays. . 

 Least depth of caudal peduncle, 



Depth of body at dorsal , 



Length of head 



Length of maxilla 



Diameter of eye. 



Length of longest gill raker. .. . 



MALR 



Inches 



FEMALE 



Incbes 



131/2 



13 



% . 





1 





3 



21/2 



2% 



2% 



% 



Vs 



1/2 



V2 



% . 





Scales of the 



The male has 17+31 gill rakers; the female, 47. 

 male, 8-74-8; of the female, 76. 



In the female the maxilla reaches to the front of the pupil; 

 the lower jaw projects a little; the dorsal and anal each have 

 10 divided rays; the dorsal has a black tip; the pectoral is dusky 

 above; the ventral and anal are pale; the caudal is dusky towards 

 its margin. 



The Cisco, -according to Mr Annin, lives in deep waters and 

 spawns in brooks in December. 



Dr Meek saw a few specimens of the species from Cayuga 

 lake. The U.S. Fish Commission obtained four specimens at Cape 

 Vincent N. Y. Nov. 11 and 17, 1891. The U. S. National Museum 

 has a number of examples from Lake Champlain, some of them 

 from Vergennes Vt., and others from Ticonderoga N. Y. DeKay 

 says the shad salmon occurs in the smaller lakes in the interior 

 of the state, which still communicate with our inland seas. 



127 Argyrosomus hoyi Gill 

 Mooneye Cisco; Shiner 



Argyrosomus lioiji Gill, Mss. Jordan, Amer. Naturalist, 135, March, 1875, 

 Lake Michigan, near Racine, Wis.; Evermann & Smith, Rept. U. S. 

 F. C. XX, 310, pi. 22, 1896; Bean, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 

 342, 1897, Canandaigua Lake; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. 469, 1896. 



