COMMON PIKE. 915 



Its habits are like those of its Eastern relative, Esox retieulatus, which 

 Thoreau describes as " the swiftest, wariest, and most ravenous of fishes, 

 which Josselyn calls the River Wolf. It is a solemn, stately, ruminant 

 fish, lurking under the shadow of a pad at noon, with still, circumspect, 

 voracious eye ; motionless as a jewel set in water, or moving slowly along 

 to take up its position ; darting from time to time at such unlucky fish 

 or frog or insect as comes within its range, and swallowing it at a gulp. 

 Sometimes a striped snake, bound to greener meadows across the stream, 

 ends its undulatory progress in the same receptacle." 



109. Esox LUCIUS Linnaeus. 

 Conimoii Pike; Liake Pickerel. 



* Synonymy for Ewropean Specimens, 



Luoiua, Billon, De Aqaat, 296. — Rondklet, ii, 188.— Salv., 94, 95. — Schonkvkldb, 

 44. — Aldrovandi, De Pise, 630. — Jonston, iii, t, 3, o. 5, t. 29, f. 1. — Qesneb, De 

 Pise., 500.— Willoughby, 236, tab., 5, f 2.— Eat, Syn., 112.— Klkist, Miss. Pise, v. 

 74, tab. 20, f. 1. 



Eaox ]>^o. 1, Aetkdi, Synon., 26; Gen. p. 10, and Spec. 53.— Gronovius, Zoophyl. No. 361 



Esox lucius, L., Syst. Nat., i, 516.— Bloch, Fisohe Dentschl., i, 229, t. 32; Bl. Schn., 390, 

 — Lacefede, v. p. 297.— Eeisinger, Prod. Ichth. Hnng, 47. — Dononan, Brit. Fishes, 

 V. pi. 109. — Flem., Brit. Ann., 184. — Jurinb, Mem. Soo. Phys. et Hist. Nat. Geneve, 

 iii, 1825, 231, pi. 15.— Erkstrom, Fisohe Morko, 78. — Fries and Erksteom, Scand. 

 Fisk., 49, t. 10. — NiLSSON, Prodr. 36, and Scand. Fann. Fisk., 348. — Pallas, Zoogr. 

 Ross.-As,, iii, 336. — Parnell, Wern. Mem., vii, 272— Yarrbll, Brit. Fishes, Ist Ed., 

 1 pi., 383 ; 2d Ed , 1 pi., 434 ; 3d Ed., 1, 343.— Selts-Lokgch., Faune Beige, 223.— 

 Cut. and Val., xviii, 278. — Kroter, Danm. Fisk., 236. — Gronovius, Syst. Ed. Gray, 

 146. — Gunther, Fische des Neckars, 107. — Eapp, Fische des Bodensees, 11. — Heckkl 

 and Eiter, Susswasserfisohe, 287. — Siebolb, Sngswasserfische, 325. — Gunthek, Cat. 

 Fishes Brit. Mas., vi, 226, and of all anthors since Linn sens. 



The Pike; Heoht; Broohet; Luoio or Lnzzo, Gadda (Sweden). 



Synonymy for American Sped,mens. 



Esox estor, LbSubub, Jonrn. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1818, 413. — Gunther, Cat. Fishes 

 Brit. Mns., vi, 1867, 228 (Excl. syn. pars. Not of Eichardeon, DeKay, and others, 

 which is E. nobilior, Thompson). 



Esox lucius, var. esior, Jordan, Man. Vert., 1876, 255.— Nelson, Bull, His. Mns. Nat. 

 Hist,, 1876. — Jordan and Cofbland, Check List Fishes, 1876, 143. 



Esox lucius, Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer. Fishes, iii, 1836, 124. — DeKay, New York 

 Fauna, Fishes, 1842, 226.— Storer, Synopsis Fishes N. A., 1846, 438,— Copb, Proo. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 79.— Copb, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. PhUa., 1866, 408.— 

 GUNTHBR, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mns., vi, 1867, 227.— Jordan, Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mas., x, 

 1877, 55.— Jordan, Man. Vert,, 2d Ed., 1878, 266.— Jordan, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. 

 Terr., 1878, 432. 



* Copied from Gunther Cat. Fishes Brit. Mns., vi, 1867, p. 286. 



