24 the game fish of nohth america. 



2. Family SilurjD^, 



Containing many species, Cat-Fish, Bull-Heads, &c., unworthy of 

 notice, except. 

 Genus Silurus : 



• The Great Cat-Fish, Pimelodes Huron. 



3. Family Cyprinid^, 



Containing many varieties. The Chub, Sucker, Shiner, Roach, 

 Dace, Bream, &c., of no account except for bait, unless it be 

 ■ two imported species. 



The Common Carp, Cyprinus Carpio, and 



The Golden Carp, Cyprinus Auratus. 



5. Family Clupeid^:. 

 Genus Alosa : 



The Shad,* Alosa Prcestahiiis. 

 Genus Clupea : 



The Herring, Clupea Harengus. 



6. Family Esocid.*;. 

 Genus Estor : 



The Mascalonge, Esox Estor. 



The Northern Pickerel, Esox lAidoides. 



The Common Pickerel, Esox Reticulatus. 



The Long Island Pickerel, Esox Fasciatus. 



The Garpike, Esox Osseus. 



Beside two or three other species, found in the Pennsylvanian 

 and Western waters. 

 This -brings us to the end of our fresh-water, soft-finned fishes ; or 

 of such, at least, as are in any wise worthy to be accounted Game 

 Fishes ; and we come to the second division, AcamthopUrygii, or spiny- 

 named by the ignorant early settlers, still go by those stupid misnomers — as in the 

 present instance, where a fish having no possible analogy to a Bass, and, indeed, 

 belonging to a different class of fish, " soft-finned," is termed Base. The analogous 

 fish in England are known as Gwyniad, Vendace and Pollan. I would suggest 

 " Otsego Lavaret" as a very suitable name for this unnamed species. 



* I somewhat doubt this distinction. I have drawings, made from life, of two 

 varieties of Shad taken in New York bay, agreeing precisely with Alosa Finta and 

 Alosa Communis, of Yarrel — the Twaite and Allice Shad of England — to the lat- 

 ter of which I would refer this fish. 



