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New York and New Hampshire to Lake Superior and 

 Alaska. It is hatched in great numbers by the State 

 of New York. 



There are other members of the whitefish tribe, and 

 ail are wortli cultivating. Never having hatched this 

 fish, I made inquiry of Mr. John G. Roberts, formerly 

 in charge of the Adirondack station of the New York 

 Fish Commission. Under date of March 26, 1899, 

 Mr. Roberts writes as follows : 



"The frostfish eggs are quite .adhesive and very 

 heavy. I had some whitefish eggs, and being crowded 

 for room for my frostfish eggs last fall, I took a jar 



Adirondack Frostfish. 



partly full of whitefish eggs and filled it with eggs of 

 the frostfish. The latter settled at the bottom at once 

 and did not mix, showing them to be very heavy." 



It seems singular that species as closely related in 

 structure and habits should differ so much in the char- 

 acter of their eggs. We find the same thing in the 

 genus Morone, the striped bass and the white perch. 



On Long Island the tomcod is sometimes called 

 "frostfish," and in other places the smelt is so desig- 

 nated, but this is a fish which has no other popular 

 name than frostfish, and therefore should be left to 

 enjoy it; is one of the "whitefishes," sometimes called 



