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109. Thymallus tricolor montanus Milner. 

 Montana Grayling. 



Fluviatile. 



Southern Alberta?:* certain rivers of Montana, and Yellowstone National Park. 



110. Mallotus villosus Miiller. 

 Capelin. 



Marine: sometimes ascending streams. 



Ranges from the Arctic regions southward, on the Pacific coasts to British Columbia and 

 Kamchatka, and on the Atlantic coast of North America, embracing Greenland, 

 Labrador, Newfoundland, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Maritime Provinces, and New England 

 States, to Cape Cod. 



111. Thaleichthys pacificus Richardson. 

 Oolachan: Candlefish. 

 Anadromous in a measure. 



British Columbia, ascending the Fraser. and Naas Rivers: ranging from Oregon north- 

 ward to Alaska. 



112. Osmerus thaleichthys Ayres. 

 Pacific Smelt. 



Marine. 



British Columbia: ranges from California to Alaska. 



113. Osmerus mordax Mitchill. (Plate VII, figures 53 and 54). 

 American Smelt. 



Marine, fluviatile, and landlocked. 



Atlantic coast of North America from Labrador to Virginia: lakes in Maritime Provinces, 



Province of Quebec, and New England States: Lac-des-Isles, Gatineau District, some 



sixty miles north of Ottawa.f 



114. Osmerus dentex Steindachner. 

 Rainbow Herring. 



Marine and fluviatile. 



Naas River, British Columbia: Arctic Red River (Preble, 1903-4): Pacific coast from 



Alaska, embracing both coasts of Bering Sea, and extending southwestward to northern 



China. 



115. Mesopus pretiosus Girard. 

 Surf Smelt. 



Marine: spawns in the surf. 



British Columbia, extending southward to California. 



*A little salmonoid in rivers of southern Alberta, locally called the grayling, may be this sub-species. 



+Whilst engaged in some fisheries matters in the month of May, 1903, I found some specimens of the American 

 Smelt floating dead on the surface of the water of Lac des Isles, in the Gatineau district, P .Q. It is known that this 

 species of fish exists land-locked in fresh water lakes in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and in the State of Maine, 

 but its occurrence in a lake so far away from the sea as Lac des Isles, is perhaps worthy of mention. The specimens 

 are dwarfed, otherwise the external characters appear to agree with the ordinary Osmerus mordax. 



