EsociD^. — cn. 267 



Great Lakes and headwaters of the Mississippi. A fine 

 species reaching a length of 3 to 4 feet. (JF. estor, 

 lucioides, boretcs, etc., of authors.) 



*** Cheeks and opercles scaly; branchiostegals 13 to 15; species 

 of moderate or small size, reticulated or barred with dark 

 green on a lighter ground — sometimes plain. (Pickerels.) 



f Branchiostegals 14 to 16; snout prolonged; front of eye nearly 

 midway in head. 



3. f . reticulatus, LeSueur. Common Eastern Pick- 

 BEBL. Geebn Pikb. Head 3^ in length; the snout 

 much prolonged; front of eye about midway in head; 

 eye more than three times in snout; green, sides with 

 a network of brown streaks; B. 14 to 16; D. 16 to' 18; 

 A. 15 to 17; lat. 1. 120 to 130. Streams of Atlantic 

 States abundant, but not found far in the interior; 

 smaller, than the preceding, but much larger than the 

 next. 



tt Branchiostegals normally 13 ; front of eye nearer tip of snout. 



4. E. cypho. Cope. Htjmp-back Pickerel. Resembles 

 E. salmoneiis, but may probably always be known by 

 the elevated back and broad swollen ante-dorsal region. 

 Colors usually plain or somewhat reticulate. Western 

 States. 



5. £, americanus, Gmelin. Banded Pickeeel. 

 Teout Pickbebl. Head 3f in length, the snout much 

 shorter than in the preceding; eye much nearer snout 

 than opercular margin, its diameter less than 3 in snout; 

 dark green; sides with about twenty distinct blackish 

 curved bars, scarcely reticulated; B. 13; D. 13; A. 13; 

 lat. 1. 100; length scarcely a foot. Atlantic streams, with . 

 the preceding. {JS. niger, scomberius, fasciatus and 

 ornaius of authors.) (Represented S. of Va, by E. ra- 

 venelii, Holbr.) 



