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AMERICAN FISHES. 



thing that comes within his reach, ministers instantly to his voracious 

 appetite. ,,; ... . 



Butthe baits hy which he is most sjjortingly peovired are the ,?mall 

 iirightZeaasa, Qr shiners, at the end of a double , swivej trace, or a 

 live frog, which he can rarely refusfe; . :,, 



Note to Revised EpiTioN.^I hav,e recently been informe4 by a correBpondent, 

 that'this fish, or the Mascalonge, is taten in the Connecticut, nesu: Bellow's Falls. 

 That he himself has captured it, and is assured of its being wholly distinct; from the 

 common Pickerel, with which he asserts himself to be, and of course is, conversant. 

 He also adds, that it has only been knoWn in those waters within a Umited number 

 of years ; and tliat it is the. popular belief that it was introduced iato the Coniiecti- 

 cut by the breaking out of a new outlet: from some mountain lake. If this be so, it 

 is a strange fact, as this fish was only distinguished as belonging to the great lakes, 

 last year, 1848, by Professor Agassiz, who considers it peculiar to them ; and tlie 

 Mascalonge has been hitherto distinctly limited to the St; Lawrence' basiu. This 

 fish was considered by Richardson, as identical with the English Pike, Esox Lu- 

 cius, which it is not, though nearly allied to 't, wlience its name, Lucioides. 



