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length of about 2 feet. To this group the subgeneric name 

 Kenoza is sometimes applied; it includes the banded pick- 

 erel, the little pickerel and the chain pickerel, all of which 

 occur in New York. 



147 Lucius americanus (Gmelin) 

 Banded Pickerel 



Esox lucius i3 americanus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1390, 1788, Long Island, New 



York. 

 Esooc niger Le Sueur, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. I, 415, 1818, Lake Sara- 

 toga, New York; Stoker, Syn. Fish. N. A. 185, 1846; Gunther, Cat. 



Fish. Brit. Mus. VI, 229, 1866. 

 Esox scomherius Mitchill, Amer. Month. Mag. II, 322, March, 1818, 



Murderer's Creek, New York. 

 Esox fasciatus De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 224, pi. S4, fig. 110, 1842, 



streanas and ponds of Long Island. 

 Esox raveneli Holbrook, Ichth. S. C. 201, 1860, Charleston, S. 0. 

 Esox americanus Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 352, 1883; 



Bean, Fishes Penna. 89, pi. 28, fig. 53, 1893. 

 Lucius americanus Jordan & Etermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 626, 



.1896. 



The banded pickerel has an elongate body; its depth con- 

 tained about five times in the total length without caudal; the 

 length of the head three and one fourth times in the standard 

 length. The snout is contained two and two thirds times in 

 the length of the head, and the eye five and one half times in 

 the same length. The maxillary extends to vertical through 

 middle of eye ; the lower jaw projects considerably beyond the 

 upper. Teeth in the jaws strong, directed backwards. The 

 ventral is placed in middle of body, the dorsal and anal fins far 

 back, opposite each other; their longest rays of about the same 

 length, much longer than the bases of the fins. Caudal deeply 

 emarginate. B. 11-13; D. 11-14; A. 11-12. Scales in lateral 

 line 105. The body is usually dark green, sometimes brownish 

 black, above; the sides greenish yellow with about 20 dark 

 curved bars, which are generally very distinct; dorsal and 

 caudal fins dark brown, the other fins lighter, sometimes red- 

 dish; a dark bar from the eye to angle of jaw, another from the 

 snout through the eye to upper edge of opercle. 



The banded pickerel is probably identical with the " mackerel 

 pike " of Mitchill. It is a small fish, seldom exceeding l!i 



