o CHECK LIST OF FISHES OP THE DOMINION 



As the list stands there are 569 species including sub-species (3 being in addenda), and they 

 follow each other consecutively, and in systematic order, from the cyclostomes to the plectog- 

 naths : the families and orders under which they are placed appearing in a preceding scheme of 

 classification. The technical name, governed by the rules of priority; the vernacular name, when 

 the fish has one (and the majority of our fishes bear vernacular names); the environment, 

 concisely; and the geographical distribution of each fish are given. 



The check-list is based on all the available literature on the subject, and on my own personal 

 observations in many parts of the Dominion; as well as in an examination of specimens in the 

 museum. In its preparation a vast amount of material has been consulted. I am under inestimable 

 obligation to Drs. Jordan and Evermann. Their great work on 'The Fishes of North and Middle 

 America' in four massive volumns has been indispensable, and I am indebted to them for the 

 settlement of priority of names. I adhere, however, to British ichthyologists where a matter of 

 orthography is concerned — as Lepidosteus instead of Lepisosteus and Hyodon instead of Hiodon. 

 Besides the great work of those authorities referred to, I have received much help from their 

 'American Food and Game Fishes,' and from Dr. Jordan's 'Guide to' the Study of Fishes' in two 

 volumns. 



Many lists and records of the fishes of Provinces and localities have been diligently compared, 

 and in respect to such valuable aid has been afforded me by individual students of the fishes of 

 special localities. 



To Mr. Harry Piers, Curator of the Provincial Museum of Nova Scotia, I am indebted not 

 only for copies of his annual reports which contain accounts of fishes of Nova Scotia, and for records 

 of the occurrence of Chilomycterus schoepft and Mola mola in that Province, but also for the loan 

 of the following lists which are now out of print. 



'Fishes of Nova Scotia,' 1866, by Thomas F. Knight. 



' List of the Fishes of Nova Scotia,' 1879, by J. Matthew Jones. 



' Nova Scotian Ichthyology,' 1885-6, by Dr. Honeyman. 



To Dr. Phillip Cox, of Fredericton University, I owe a great deal, not only for the valuable 

 aid which his ' Catalogue of the Marine and Fresh-water Fishes of New Brunswick ' and his ' List 

 of Fresh-water Fishes of the Gaspe Peninsula' have afforded me, but I am additionally indebted 

 to him for kindly going over my manuscript in regard to the fishes of New Brunswick. 



Gratefully do I acknowledge the favours of the late Rev. G. W. Taylor, formerly the Curator 

 of the Biological Station at Departure Bay, Vancouver Island. In personal interviews and in 

 correspondence he did me great service, and he had the kindness to review a provisional manuscript 

 list of the fishes of British Columbia which I drew up for his perusal. It may be mentioned too 

 that Mr. Taylor kindly volunteered to allow me to incorporate into my list, a list of the fishes of 

 British Columbia, which he himself had in course of preparation, but unfortunately his death 

 intervened and the list has never appeared. In regard to the fishes of British Columbia, I am also 

 indebted to Mr. Francis Kermode, Curator of the Provincial Museum, Victoria, who kindly had 

 a list of the fishes in the museum type-written for me, and who also sent me a copy of his published 

 report which contains a list of the fishes in that collection. To him I am further indebted for getting 

 a very young specimen of Calulus brunneus, through Dr. Gilbert of Leland-Stanford Junior Uni- 

 versity, identified. 



The following lists and publications have been of great service: 



' Food and Game Fishes of North America,' by the deceased Dr. G. Brown Goode. 



'Check-list of the Fishes of Ontario,' by Mr. C. W. Nash, Lecturer on Biology for the Ontario 

 Department of Agriculture. 



