a 1886] Zoölogy. 897 
among these fish the wall-eyed pike (Stizostedium vitreum) was 
the most abundant, ranging in length from ten inches to two and 
one-half feet. 
There were, too, hundreds of perch (Perca americana), rock 
bass (Ambloplites rupestris), black bass, (Micropterus salmoides), 
bull heads(Ami urus) crappies (Pomoxys annularis), calico bass (P. 
E sparndes) and many other specimens of a variety of white fish 
k (Coregonus artedi). Also the “ling” (Lota maculosa), an occa- 
i re dog-fish (Amia calva), many pike (Esox lucius), and large 
suckers, 
© warm water of the large lake probably helps to incapaci- 
tate the fish, for in the smaller lakes in the vicinity, which are fed 
by springs, the fish are comparatively free from such enemies. 
-+ might say here I found no sure indication of the muskel- 
lunge (Asox nobilior) inhabiting Lake Mille Lac. , The specimens 
of so-called “ muskellunge” shown me by the farmers were giant 
Specimens of Æ, lucius.—F. L. Washburn, 
tron of which he engraved, with his pen-knife, “ J. W., 1824” and 
‘tit freénear Albion, Ill. Some time during 1865 Mr. W. Hod- 
: _ Son found it in the same vicinity where it had been set free forty- 
_ “ne years before. He engraved the letter “W” on the carapace 
_ ` 4nd again set it free. Nothing more was seen of it until August, 
| 1885, when it was found by Mr. Herbert Hodson (brother to W.) 
out one-half a mile from the spot where it had been set free 
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