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may be met witli in Boston market almost any month in tlie year, although greater 



numbers are taken in the spring and autumn^ and some 5 ears during the winter. The 

 largest specimens I haye seen were bi ought from Brewbter, Cape Cod. Individuals 

 from that place weighing seven pounds have been sold in our maiket, and they are said 

 to be taken there considerably larger even than this. They are generally caught with 

 the hook; considerable quantities, however, are speared, in some cases through the 

 ice ; at other times individuals go out in boats in the e^ ening ^^ ith lights, the pick- 

 erel are attracted, and are speared as they collect round the boats. 

 Maine, Massachusetts, Stoker. Connecticut, Linseey, Ayres. Xew York, Dekai. 



Ohio, KiRTLVND. 



Esox ornatus, GiranL 



The Smaller Pickerel. 



(Plate XXIV. Fig, 2,) 

 Esox ornatus^ Giraed, Proc Bost Soc Nat Hist, v p 41 1854 



Color. A darkish-green, barred transversely and quite regularly with narrow blackish- 

 brown bands, some twenty in number, which hardly reticulate ; not at all posteriorly. 

 The black band beneath the eye pointing somewhat obliquely backward. Throat 

 stained with fuliginous. 



Description. Very similar in its characters to those of the refimlatus. The follow- 

 ing differences are observable. Head considerably more than one fourth the whole 

 length of the body ; in the reticulatus it is one fourth. 



The distance of the ventrals before the anal fin is about one quarter of the whole 

 length ; in the reticmlatus it is not one sixth. 



The pectorals commence on a line with the sixth branchial ray ; in the reticulafus^ on 

 a line with the sixteenth. 



The fin rays are as follows : — D. 11. P. 13. V. 9. A. 11. C. 19. 



Length, seven and a half inches. 



Remarhs. This species is not unfrequently noticed in Boston market, and is so 

 similar to the reticulatm that it has heretofore been considered to be the young of that 

 species. 



Massachusetts, Gibard, Storek. 



