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gether to the streams in which they were taken, as pale examples 

 were taken at the same time and precisely in the same localities. 

 During the winter months, when the ponds and creeks are frozen, 

 it was not unusual to see them captured by striking the ice above 

 a sharp blow with a hatchet, and then chop through and extract 

 them before they have recovered from the effect of the concus- 

 sion. Small boys often employed this method, and I have seen 

 them with a dozen or more taken during a single afternoon in 

 late winter and early spring. The flesh of this fish is of excellent 

 quality. It is of rather small size, few examples exceeding a foot 

 in length. The young are paler and without the rich coloring 

 of large examples, usually more or less pale hyaline-green with 

 very pale markings. They have the same voracious habits, how- 

 ever. 



So far as I can learn no pike have been taken in Lily Lake at 

 Cape May, though they were reported from Mill Pond, the next 

 body of fresh-water of size to the north. 



Bsox americami\s Jordan, An. N. Y. Acad. Sci., T, 1879, P- 

 104.— Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VI, 1887, p. 147, from Baird. 



Lucius americamis Evermann, Recreation, April, 1902, p. 292. 



Bsox fasciatiis Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 345. 

 —Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 822.— Abbott, Rep. U. S. F. 

 Com., 1875-76, p. 844.— Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, p. 478. 



Bsox porosus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868 (1869), p. 822. — Ab- 

 bott, Am. Nat., IV, 1870, p. 386.— Abbott, Rep. U. S. F. Com., 

 1875-76, p. 844 



Bsox umbrosus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1883, p. 

 132. 



Bsox vermiciilatus Cope, Am. Nat., XXX, 1896, p. 943. 



Esox reticulatus Le Sueur. 



Pike. Chain Pickerel. Pickerel. Common Eastern Pickerel. 



Head 2^/10; depth 6; D. v, 12, i; A. v, 11, i; scales 115 in 



lateral line tO' base of caudal, and about 7 more on latter ; about 



42 tubes in median lateral line; 13 scales between origin of dorsal 



and lateral line; about 12 scales between origin of anal and 



12 MU 



