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336. Morone americana Gmelin. (Plate -X, figures 120 and 121). 

 White Perch. 



Anadromous, being essentially a brackish water species: often landlocked. 



Atlantic coast of North America from the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Maritime Provinces 



to South Carolina: recorded as abounding "in the numerous lakes of Nova Scotia" 



(Knight, 1866, as Labrax pallidus). 



337. Cynoscion regalis Bloch and Schneider. (Plate X, figure 122). 

 Common Weakfish. 



Marine: on sandy shores. 



Mr. S. F. Denton, taxidermist, Wellesley Farms, Mass., writes that he. has mounted speci- 

 mens which he understood from the senders had been obtained at coasts of Nova Scotia: 

 ■reputed range "Atlantic and Gulf coast of the United States from Cape Cod south- 

 ward to Mobile" (Jordan and Evermann). 



338. Cynoscion nobilis Ayres. 

 White Sea Bass. 



Marine. 



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Vancouver Island, southward to coast of California. 



339. Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque. (Plate X, figures 123 and 124). 

 Fresh-water Drum: Lake Sheepshead. 



Lacustrine and fluviatile. 



Extends from Ontario, through the Great Lakes region, westward to Manitoba; and ranging 

 through "the Ohio and Mississippi valleys southward to Louisiana and Texas: also re- 

 corded from the Rio Usumacinta, Tabasco, southern Mexico. 



340. Eques lanceolatus Linnaeus. 

 Ribbon-fish. 



Marine. 



Recorded from Sherringham Point, British Columbia (specimen in Provincial Museum, 



Victoria): "West Indies, ranging northward to Pensacola" (Jordan and Evermann): 



certain warm seas. 



341. Ronquilus jordani Gilbert. 

 Ronquil. 



Marine. 



Recorded from Departure Bay,* Vancouver Island, from Puget Sound, and from coast of 

 Alaska. 



342. Trichodon trichodon Tilesius. 

 Sand-fish. 



Marine: burys in the sand of sandy shores. 



British Columbia: ranges from coast of California to Bering Sea, and Kamchatka (Tilesius, 

 1811). 



'*A specimen of this species was dredged at Departure Bay, Vancouver Island, near the Biological Station by 

 the late Rev. G. W. Taylor, the then Curator of the station, and the author, in the Autumn of 1908, being its first 

 recoid in Canadian waters. 



