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A List of the Fishes Known to Have Occurred 

 within Fifty Miles of New York City. 



By John Treadwell Nichols. 

 With drawings by Charles R. Knight, Gregory S. Allen, and Francis West. 



The compilation of this list has been incidental to work on 

 the local icthyfauna at the American Museum of Natural 

 History. It is based on specimens in the collections of this 

 museum, and on the following three publications: Bean, '' Fishes 

 of Long Island," N. Y. Forest, Fish, and Game Com. Rept., 

 1900; Smith, '* Fishes of the Fresh and Brackish Waters in the 

 Vicinity of New York City," Abstr. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y., 

 No. 9, 1896-1897; Fowler, '^ Fishes of New Jersey," N. J. State 

 Mus. Rept., 1905. 



The nomenclature followed throughout is that of Jordan and 

 Evermann's ''Fishes of North and Middle America," Bull. 

 47, U. S. National Museum. We believe that in following a 

 well-known general work of this nature we run less risk of 

 confusion, and serve best the aims of the present paper. A 

 final paragraph brings certain of the names more up to date. 



The list is intended to be in no waj^ complete or final, but 

 to serve as a basis for further work. 



The writer has been aided in its preparation by Dr. T. H. 

 Bean of the New York Forest, Fish, and Game Commission, 

 Prof. Bashford Dean of Columbia University, Mr. W. I. De 

 Nyse of the New York Aquarium, Dr. Louis Hussakof of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, Dr. R. C. Osburn of 

 the Aquarium, Mr. Eugene Smith of the Linnsean Society, 

 and Dr. C. H. Towsend of the Aquarium. 



1. Petromyzon marinus Linn. Sea Lamprey. 

 Not uncommon. March to June. 



2. Lampetra wilder! Gage. Brook Lamprey. 



Common. Spring. (Dean & Sumner, Trans. N. Y. Ac. 

 Sd., xvi, 1897, 321.) 



