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46. Lepidosteus osseus Linnaeus. (Plate I, figures 4 and 5). 

 Common Garpike. 



Lacustrine and fluviatile. 



St. Lawrence River, and Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, westward to Lake Huron: very- 

 plentiful near Belleville, Bay of Quinte: in the United States ranges from Vermont 

 westward to the Great Lakes region and southward to the Rio Grande. 



47. Lepidosteus platostomus Rafinesque. 

 Short-nosed Garpike. 

 Lacustrine and fluviatile. 



Not common in Canada: Great Lakes region, and Ohio and Mississippi valleys. 



48. Amia calva Linnaeus. (Plate I, figures 6 and 7). 

 Bowfin: Dogfish. 



Lacustrine and fluviatile. 



St. Lawrence River, and Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, westward to Lake Huron: very 

 plentiful near Belleville, Bay of Quinte: in the United States, ranges from the Mississippi 

 valley and Great Lakes region southward to the southern States. 



49. Tarpon atlanticus Cuvier and Valenciennes. 

 Tarpon. 



Marine, and fluviatile in that it ascends rivers from the sea. 



Ordinarily ranges from Long Island to Brazil: common on coast of Florida: also occurs on 

 the coasts of the West Indies: "common about Porto Rico where it evidently breeds, 

 as numerous immature individuals were taken at Hucares and Fajardo" (Evermann and 

 Marsh, 1899) : twice recorded from Nova Scotia, from off Isaac's Harbour, and from 

 Harrigan Cove in eel-grass.* 



50. Albula vulpes Linnaeus. 

 Lady-fish. 



Marine. 



All warm and tropical seas: ordinarily ranges on the American coasts northward to Long 



Island: a specimen obtained in September 1911, at Black's Harbour, Bay of Fundy, 



New Brunswick, f 



51. Hyodon alosoides Rafinesque. 

 Shad Mooneye. 

 Lacustrine and fluviatile. 



Manitoba and presumably Saskatchewan: Ohio River region. 



♦This specimen which was speared on 6th September, 1906, is in the Provincial Museum at Halifax. 



•(•This specimen was received from Mr. William Mcintosh, Curator of the Museum of the Natural History Society 

 of New Brunswick, for identification. Not having seen the lady-fish before, and as the preservatives have consider- 

 ably altered the appearance of the specimen, I should mention that it differs at least in one particular from descriptions 

 and figures, viz: — the snout does not appear to overlap the mouth. But as this species passes through a meta- 

 morphosis, being at first a band-shaped larval form, and as this specimen is only about 7 inches in length, whereas 

 the species attains a length of from 1£ ft. to 3ft., possibly every character had not been completed even although 

 in effect the fish had passed through its metamorphosis when not more than an inch or two in length. This I do 

 not know, but other external characters, particularly the heavy adipose covers over the eyes, appear to determine 

 it a specimen of the lady-fish. Internal characters could not be examined, as all the organs had become pasty and 

 undecipherable. 



