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59. Pomolobus mediocris Mitchill. 

 Hickory Shad: Fall Herring. 

 Marine. 



Recorded from vicinity of Campobello Island, New Brunswick. (Cox, 1895, as Chipea mediocris) : 

 extends from Cape Cod to coast of Florida. 



60. Pomolobus pseudoharengus Wilson. 

 Gaspereau: Alewife. 

 Anadromous or landlocked. 



Widely distributed from the coasts of the Maritime Provinces and Labrador, and embracing 

 the St. Lawrence River, to Lake Ontario, in which lake it is very abundant: extends 

 along the Atlantic coast of the United States from Maine southward to the Carolinas: 

 occurs landlocked in certain lakes of the State of New York. 



61. Pomolobus aestivalis Mitchill. 

 Glut Herring, 

 Anadromous. 



Extends from the Maritime Provinces to the Carolinas, but more abundant southward than 

 northward. 



62. Alosa sapidissima Wilson. (Plate VII, figure 59). 

 American Shad. 



Anadromous. 



Extends, or did extend, from Labrador, Newfoundland, Gulf of St. Lawrence, and Maritime 

 Provinces, to the Gulf of Mexico; but its distribution in our waters more limited and 

 local than formerly: "occasional in Baie-des-Chaleurs" (Cox, 1895): still frequents 

 the shores of St. John and Albert Counties, and ascends the St. John River, New Bruns- 

 wick; as well as occurring in Chignecto, Cobequid and St. Marys Bays, and Bay Verte, 

 Maritime Provinces: mentioned as occurring in Gaspe Bay (Stafford, 1905-1906, as 

 Clupea sapidissima): "formerly abundant in the lower Ottawa, but has abandoned that 

 river, and its occurrence within our boundaries [Ontario] is now only accidental" (Nash, 

 1908,): has been introduced into Pacific coast waters by the United States Fish Com- 

 mission, and has "been established in several of the tributaries of the Mississippi River, 

 notably the Ohio River" (Goode, 1888). 



63. Brevoortia tyrannus Latrobe. (Plate VIII, figures 66 and 67). 

 Menhaden: Mossbunker. 



Marine: "probably spawning in brackish water." 



Ranges from Nova Scotia, at least from St. Marys Bay, southward to Brazil;* and mentioned 

 by Jones (1879) in his "List of the Fishes of Nova Scotia" on the authority of Dr. Gilpin: 

 being migratorially erratic, its geographical range varies greatly from year to year: 

 according to Goode (1888), as defined for 1877, its wanderings "bounded by the parallels 

 of north latitude 25° and 45°; on the continental side by the line of brackish water; on 

 the east by the inner boundary of the Gulf Stream."t 



♦"Represented on the coast of Brazil by Brevoortia tyrannus aurea Agassiz." Jordan and Evermann. 



tGoode goes on to say: — "In the summer it occurs in the coastal waters of all the Atlantic States from Maine 

 to Florida, in winter only south to Cape Hatteras: the limits of its winter migiation oceanwards cannot be defined, 

 though it is demonstrated that the species does not occur about the Bermudas or Cuba, nor presumably in the 

 Caribbean Sea." 



