The Fishes of the Fresh and Brackish 

 Waters in the Vicinity of 

 New York City. 



By Kugkne Smith. 



In the following paper is given an enumeration of the species 

 of fishes found in the vicinity of New York City, in both fresh 

 and brackish water. In the first list are given the fishes found 

 by me ; in the second list those not found by me, but known 

 to occur from statements of reliable observers who give the 

 localities where they found them ; in the last list those whose 

 actual occurrence within our limits is not authenticated, but 

 most of which will probably be found on further search ; a few 

 may be extra-limital. 



Fishes by reason of their aquatic residence are perhaps the 

 most elusive of all the Vertebrates, hiding as many of them do, 

 in dark and inaccessible places, among brush and weeds or 

 burrowing in the mud. Often a find is made of a species whose 

 existence at that particular spot was never thought of. 



The district enbraced in this list includes parts of the States 

 of New York and New Jersey : The valley of the Hackensack 

 River, the main valley of the Passaic River with its northern and 

 eastern affluents, the lower part of the Bronx River, Staten 

 Island, the western part of Long Island, and part of the region 

 tributary to the Navesink River in New Jersey. The 

 Hudson River in the nearby vicinity of New York is of the 

 nature of a marine inlet and has therefore no strictly fresh water 

 species. 



The above district embraces most of the territory immediately 

 tributary to New York harbor taken in its largest sense. From 

 the Raritan River no fishes are included as of my own know- 

 ledge, but under the third list I enumerate species which are 

 known from there. 



