THE PIKE, MUSKELLUNGE AND PICKEREL. 275 
seems impracticable to compile from American authorities a satisfactory 
account of its life history, and in default thereof, frequent references must 
be made to the studies of European observers. 
THE PIKE. 
In Eastern America, the Pike is abundant as far south as Ohio; its 
northward range hus not been determined, but since its existence on the 
Island of Kadiak, in Alaska, has been demonstrated by Dr. Bean, 
‘there is every reason to believe that it will be found pretty generally dis- 
tributed throughout British America. It has not been recorded from 
Greenland or the islands of the Polar Sea. Its European range extends 
from Britain to Silesia, and doubtless east to Kamtchatka, throughout the 
Scandinavian peninsula, and north in Lapland, even beyond the limits of 
the birch-tree. It inhabits most of the rivers and lakes of European 
