684 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
LIST OF NAMES OF AMERICAN FISHES ANALYZED. 
Acipenser sturio oxyrhynchus Mitch. Common sturgeon ; French, Esturgeon ; Ge 
man, Stor. No. 238. 
Moxostoma velatum Cope,* Moxostoma velata Jordan, Man. Vert. Small-mouth' <1 
red-horse ; Buffalo fish. No. 258. 
Clupea harengus Lin. Common herring; Whitebait (young). French, Harem 
German, Hering. Nos. 33, 47. 
Clupea pilchardus Walb. Sardine ; Pilchard. French, Sardine ; German, P 
chard. No. 87. t 
Clupea vernali8 Mitchill; Clupea mattowocca Giinther, Study of Fishes, p. 659 . 
Pomolobus vernalis, Goode & Bean. Alewife ; Branch herring; Gasperean 
Nos. 5, 220. 
Clupea sapidissima Wilson, Gunther, Study of Fishes, p. 659. Alosa sapidissir. , 
Cope. Common shad. Nos. 6, 10, 32, 212, 221, 245, 249. 
Osmerus mordax Mitchill (Gill) ; 0. viridescens Gunther. American smelt. No-. 
23, 207. 
Coregonus clupeiformis Mitchill (Milner) ; C. albus Gunther. Common whitefis' . 
No. 18. 
Coregonus sp. ( tullibee or artedi ?t); Argyrosomus Jor., Man. Vert. Cisco; La 
herring. No. 111. 
Oncorhynchus ehouiclia (Walb.) Jor. & Gil. ; 0. quinnat, Gunther. Californ 
salmon ; Quinnat salmon ; King salmon ; Columbia salmon ; Sacramento s: 
mon; Chinook salmon; Tyee salmon; Fall salmon (male) ; Spri n » salmo 
Winter salmon ; Saw-Kwey ; Chouicha. Nos. 27, 29, 96, 233, 241. 
Salmo salar Linn. Common Atlantic salmon. Fr., Saumon; Ger., Lachs, Sail 
Nos. 14, 35, 36, 77, 78, 279, 280. 
Salmo salar subsp. sebago Girard. Land-locked salmon. Nos. 40, 41. 
Salvelinus namaycush (Walb.) Goode; Salmo namaycush Gunther; Cristivon 
namaycush Jor., Man. Vert. Lake trout; Mackinaw trout; Great La 
trout ; Longe (Vermont) ; Togue (Maine). Nos. 17, 255. 
* This specimen was sent to us by Mr. Blackford, fish commissioner of the Sta « 
of New York, as a buffalo fish from Cleyeland, Ohio. The natural inference wou < 
be that it came from somewhere in that region, perhaps from Lake Erie or one of t 
Great Lakes. It was here identified as Myxostoma velata Cope, seeming to confoi 
more closely to the description of that species as given by Jordan, Manual of Verte- 
brates, 1880, than to the closely related Ictiobus, to which the buffalo fishes proper 
belong. I understand that the differences between this and some of the species of 
Ictiobus are such that one not a specialist in ichthyology might mistake the one for 
the other. That any such mistake could have been made, however, seems to me very 
improbable, as this specimen was examined with care. I have, however, changed the 
spelling to Moxostoma , thus following Jordan & Gilbert’s Synopsis since published. 
tThis specimen was, or at least purported to be, of French origin, and should more 
properly be classed with European specimens. It was included in the tables of Amer- 
ican fishes because analyzed with them. 
t This specimen was sent by Mr. Blackford as Cisco, or Lake herring, Argyrosomus 
tullibee , from Lake Erie. The name A. tullibee is given by Jordan, Man. Vert., 1880 ; 
but Jordan & Gilbert in their Synopsis designate the same species as Coregonus tullibee , 
Tullibee, Mongrel Whitefish. Dr. Bean informs me that this is rare, and I find in 
Jordan and Gilbert’s Synopsis the Lake herring or Cisco designated as C. artedi. The 
descriptions of the two species represent them as very similar, and it is not at all 
impossible that our specimen may have been artedi rather than tullibee. I do not, at 
thi£ writing, find any note of the identification of the specimen here, and consider it 
safest to designate it as Coregonus species, leaving the specific name in question. 
