Juny 21, 1884) 
%. Teeth on premaxillaries and tongue; gill-rakers 39-44 
a+. nigripinnis, 
Tt. Feermacillary: and tongue toothless; gill-rakers 46-52 
a 4a4 oy" ta t 
9: Hye large (2-7 to 1-8 length of head); size small. 
. Anal rays 10; gillvakers 55... .hovyi. 
kk, Analrays 14; gill-rakers 45, ,..merivi subsp. 
1. Stenodus mackenzii Rich. Inconnu. 
Luciotrutta mackenzit Gunther, Cat. Fish, Brit. Mus., vi,, 
1866, p. 164. Mackenzie’s River and its tributaries; Yu- 
__ kon River, Alaska, . ‘ 
‘A food fish of great value; the largest of the whitetishes. 
Growing to tour feet in length and reaching fifty pounds 
in weight. ‘Tt is full of spawn from September to Jan- 
uary, when it disappears.”—Dall. 
2. Coregonus labradoricus Rich, Lake Whiting. 
/ Great Lake region; lakes of the Adirondacks, of moun- 
tains of New England and northeastward, preferring 
clear, cold lakes, 
It is abundant in cold, cleax lakes, and in Labrador the spe- 
cies frequently reaches the length of eighteen inches, but in 
New England the average size is somewhat below this, This 
species may be regarded as certainly nearly related to the com- 
mon whitetish, C. clupeiformis, from which it differs chiefly in 
its somewhat more decided lingual dentition and its slenderer 
body. it seems besides never to reach so large a size as the 
typical great lake form. It would seem that the size of the 
species increases somewhat in the northern portion of its hab- 
 itat. This species has been erroneously placed in a group 
characterized by numerous long and slender gill-rakers; as a 
matter of fact the gill-rakers are nob more numerous in this 
species than in williiamsoni and kennicottii, The oldest name 
for this species is the one here employed, but the New Bneland 
form has since been described by Prescott in the American 
Journal of Science and Arts, 1851, under the name of Core- 
gonus neohantoniensis. 
3. Coregonus clupeiformis (Mitch), Milner, 
fish. Greatlakes; British America. 
This is one of the most important of all the whitefishes; it 
has heen extensively reared by artificial methods and 
distributed as widely as New Zealand. The Otsego Lake 
form is said to be the most southerly in the United 
States, but willimmsonit occurs in rivers of Utah. 
_ This is the common whitefish, and is-the object of the most 
important of the fisheries of the great lake region. ~We have 
the typical form of this species from Lake Champlain to the 
eastward, and from Manitoba to the westward. The range of 
this fish has also been greatly extended by artificial introduc- 
tion. The maximum weicht of the species is said to be twen- 
ty-two pounds, but the ayerage weight will perhaps scarcely 
reach ten pounds. The reported occurrence of this species in 
the Yukon River, Alaska, is perhaps unwarranted, a re-exam- 
ination of our Alaskan ‘material showing that the supposed 
C. clupeiformis of the Yukon is really C. kenwicottii, a species 
Which grows to evenalarger size than C, clupeiformis, but 
which is really not yery closely related to that species. 
It is worthy of mention that the young of C, elupeiforniis 
have a much greater uumber of scales in the lateral line than 
the adults, some examples of which are here exhibited show- 
ing as many as ninety scales, while the average number in the 
adult is but seventy-five. 
The following additional information about the whitefish 
ee extracted from the published writings of Mr. J. W. 
er: ; 
The fishes are not evenly distributed throughout the lake. 
bat range in large colonies and run near the shore at different 
points, while the majority of localities may be destitute of 
Common white- 
The statistics of nine principal fish markets on the lakes 
show the proportion of lake herring handled to be one-sixth, 
while the low rates herring command in the markets would 
produce only about oneé-thirtieth of the amount realized from 
the whole quantity of fish handled. This shows the small 
yalue of the herring to the fishermen, in the herring localities. 
T™ the whole product of the lakes it would be of much less 
cousequence, 
The whitefish is found in all depths in more or less abund- 
ance, not only in the spawning season, butatalltimes. Young 
whitefish seek the surface, and they are strong and vigorous 
from the time they leave the ege. In their early life, there- 
fore, they are not much preyed upon by voracious fishes, and 
the swarms of cyprinoids and Chivostoma (2 which are 
abundant at the surface at the same time, form a large part 
of the food of such predaceous species as do come to the sur- 
face. 
4, Coregonus nelsoniti Bean. WHump-back whitefish, Bean, 
Proc, U, 8. Nat. Mus., VII,, 1884, p. 48. 
Known from Alaska only, occurring from the Bristol Bay 
region northward to the extremity of the territory. 
This species which was until recently undescribed, has long 
been known from Alaska, but it has been confounded with a 
Siberian species, C. syrok, from which if is really very difier- 
ent, The Russian name of the species is Korabati, The Tin- 
neh tribes of the Yukon call it Kolokwih. Mr, Dall, in the re- 
port of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 1870, p, 586, speaks 
of it as a conimon species characterized by the strongly arched 
back and broad tail, He says it is rather bony and inferior in 
_fiayor, and thatitis generally used for dog food, except in 
times of scarcity. 
Ibis related to OC. clupetformis and OC. labradoricus. From 
clupeiformis it may readily be distinguished by its greatly 
BtCed and much compressed back. The body is oblong and 
compressed; the head is one-fifth as long as the fish without 
the caudal; the maxilla extends to the front margin of the eye 
and is about one-fourth as long as the head; the gill-rakers are 
only moderately long, the longest a little more than one-half 
length of eye, and thei number is about twenty-six. The 
_ greatest height of the body is a little more than one-fourth of 
the total length in the typical example, which is about four- 
teen and one-half inches long to caudal pase. The adipose fin 
is large and scaled for nearly half its height. The ventrals 
are a little nearer the tip of the snout than to the root of the 
caudal, They are about as long as the head without the snout; 
‘D. 12; A, 12; scales 10—88—10. The type of the species is No. 
29,905, taken at Nulato, Alaska, by Mr. H. W. Nelson, to whom 
the species is dedicated in recognition of his important zoolog- 
ical researches in that territory. 
6. Coregonus quadrilateralis Richardson. Round whitefish: 
4 (2 (Russian); Shad Waiter; Round-fish. 
Lakes of New England; Upper Great Lakes; Slave Lake; 
Kodiak; Yukon River; rivers of Arctic North America. 
_ (Ginther). 
0. quadrilateralis is apparently the most widely distributed 
_ ofall the whitefishes, and naturally is subject to much vari- 
ation, In the Yukon River region the form of the head is 
somewhat different from that of the ordinary Hastern type, 
_ and, strangely enough, this variation of the head is repeated in 
some ofthe Maine lakes, The appearance of this species on 
the Island of Kodiak, which is separated from the mainland of 
Alaska by a wide and deep ocean channel, is one of the most 
interesting of recent discoveries in the ichthyology of Alaska. 
C. quadriluteralis is a small and slender species, seldom ex- 
ete fifteen inches im length, but its quality is excellent, 
Tt is noteworthy that this species has a smaller number of gill- 
rakers than any other species of the North American white- 
fishes, Prescott, in the journal already referred to, re- 
pecaned this whitefish under the name Coregonus nove- 
anglice. 
Oo Gonads williamsonii Girard. Rocky Mountain-whitefish ; 
_  Ohief Mountain whitefish. 
Coregonus couestt Milner, 
1872 and 1873 (1874), p. 88. 
Rept. U, 5, Comm. Fish, for 
Pacific, northward to Oregon; found alse in tributaries ! Sun, 
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FOREST AND STREAM. 
of the Saskatchewan and of the Upper Missouri, Re- 
cently received from Mill Creek, Oregon, whence it was 
sent by Col I. R. Moores, This is an abundant and yalu- 
able food fish, 
The size of Coregonus williamsonii is small, about equal to 
that of C, Ee Ane which it closely resembles; it has, 
usually, a larger maxilla and less elongate body, and the 
number of gillrakers is somewhat larger. The Chief Moun- 
tain whitefish (O, cowesii Milner) is now known to he identical 
with Coregonus williamsonit. 
%. Coregonus kennicotlii Milner. Broad whitetish. 
Known in Alaska fromthe Kuskoquim Basin to Meade 
_River in the extreme northern part of the territory. 
This is the mufsun of the Russians, a name transferred from 
a Siberian species of similar appearance. The broad whitefish 
reaches the weight of thirty pounds, ranking next in size to 
the Inconnu only, Tt has a short head, remarkably smail 
subequal jays, and its boay is very thick. Itis a food fish of 
great excellence. Dall states that it is abundant in both win- 
ter and summer, spawning in September in the small streams 
falling into the Yukon. 
8. Coregonus tullibee Rich. Tullibee. 
Great Jakes and northward into British America, 
This singular and handsome species is said to grow to alength 
of eighteen inches. Its body is deeper than in any of the other 
whitetishes, and the scales are deep but very narrow, giving 
the fish 4 tniqne and unmistakable appearance. Richardson 
had a specimen from Pine Island Lake, in north latitude 54 
degrees. 
9, Coregonus laurettce Bean. (7) Morskoi ciga (Russian). 
ars eeu region, and northward to Point Barrow, 
Alaska. 
This species is not large, rarely exceeding three pounds in 
weight, but it is a very important source of food wherever it 
occurs. It resembles the lake herring, C. artedi, somewhat, 
but has fewer gill-rakers and a much longer dorsal base. In 
the Yukon it is particularly abundant and is one of the best- 
flavored of the Coregoni, becoming the staple article of food 
in winter, according to Mr, Dall 
10. Coregonus nigripinnis (Gill) Jor. Bluefin; blackfin, 
Lake Michigan, in deep water; deep lakes in Wisconsin, 
from the vicinity of Madison, Wiscousin, whence it has 
been sent by Fish Commissioner Welch. 
This species is locally abundant, as, for example, in Grand 
Traverse Bay. Milner reported as follows concerning it; Core- 
gonus gripinnis is most abundant in seventy or more 
fathoms and is seldom taken in the fishing season, even in as 
great a depth as fifty fathoms. At Grand Haven, Mich., 
where a line of steamers keeps the harbor open throughout 
the winter, the fishermen take the blackfin in quantities 
within thirty or forty fathoms in the month of December. 
The blackfin grows to eighteen inches in length, surpassing 
C. artedi in size and differing from it, also, in having evident 
teeth on premaxillaries and tongue. 
aie SpE lg artedi Le Sueur. Lake herring; Cisco; Michigan 
herring. 
Great Jakes and northeastward to Labrador, the eye 
becoming larger and certain other characters varying 
to the northeastward. This species has considerable 
commercial importance, 
2. Coregonus artedi, yay. sisco Jordan. Cisco. 
Small lakes of Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana, 
A form of the preceding modified by residence in small, 
deep lakes. 
. Coregonus hoyi (Gill) Jordan. Lake moon-eye; Cisco (Lake 
Michigan); Smelt (Western New York). 
Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario, in deep water; lakes of 
Western New York, where it sometimes dies myster- 
iously In great niimbers. 
Coregonus merkii Gunther subsp. Niulatoski ciga (Russian). 
Known from Yukon River and Hotham Inlet, Alaska. 
A small species, thin and hony, rarely exceeding a half 
pound in weight; little used as food in Alaska. It differs 
from typical merkii in several particulars. 
15. Coregonus lavaretus L. Mareene, 
Great lakes of Switzerland, Tyrol, Pomerania, Mecklen- 
burg, and Sweden. 
This fine, large species, the type of the genus Coregonus, 
comes into the series containing our common whitefish, C. 
clupeiformis. It has about thirty gillrvakers of moderate 
length, and the lower jaw is included. Im size and extent of 
distribution as well as in amount of variation, as expressed 
by the numerous synonymes of the word lavaretus, the two 
bear a strong resemblance to each other. The mancene in its 
adult condition is readily distinguished at sight by its 
numerous and rather deep scales; but I suspect that 1b will be 
difficult to separate the young of the two, especially since 
we have common whitefish from Lake Superior with as many 
as ninety scales, the usual number in some of the variations of 
lavaretus, 
Four hundred and nine were placed, April 14, 1877, in Lake 
Gardner, Otsego Co., Michigan. The history of the marcne 
since its introduction into America by the U. 8, Fish Commis- 
sioner is not known to me. 
14. 
CARP IN THE SUSQUBHANNA,—About two weeks ago 
a curious crowd had gathered around a large tub in one of 
our hotels which contained a fish belonging to a species un- 
Known to the oldest inhabitants of this town. The same was 
shipped to the Smithsonian Institute for identitication, and 
proved to be a German carp. ‘This is the first instance of Ger- 
man carp being takenin the Susquehanna. The fish was a 
finé specimen, weighing probably four pounds. He was taken 
in aset net below the Columbia Dam. Where did he come 
from2—A. C. KrunGer (Wrightsville, Pa., July 22, 1854). - 
GROWTH OF CARP.—Lyles, Lancaster County, Pa., July 
22.—On the 10th of last May I put sixty carp in my pond; they 
were of last years’ spawn and ran from one and a half to two 
and a half inches in length. Just seventy-one days atterward, 
haying occasion to draw off most of the water, I caught four 
leather carp. The largest measured eleven inches in length, 
the others from one to two inches shorter. This was not 
cuessed or estimated length, but actual measttrement with a 
rule. Was not that extraordinary for even a German carp?— 
J.J. C. 
THE JOWA COMMISSION.—The Governor of Iowa has 
appointed Mr. A, W. Aldrich, of Anamosa, in place of Mr. B. 
F. Shaw. 
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THE Fisu Link Ropper.—George W. Bennett, abank janitor, 
of Elizabeth, who was sent to the State prison for robbing 
the bank, died in prison of cousumption June 15. He was 
sentenced on November 11, 1882, When the circumstances of 
his case are recalled, the man will be well remembered. It 
was he who used a fish line and sinker and shoemaker’s wax 
to steal with. He set the line down on the teller’s desk, and 
the sinker being waxed was deposited on bills which clung to 
the sinker as he drew it upto the ceiling of the bank and 
through a hole into iis own room. He was the first man ever 
heard 6f to use fishing tackle for burglarious purposes, and 
the newspapers at the time of Its occurrence made a great 
ado over it. 
Way HE WAS Posrtrve.—‘‘You swear positively that it was 
on Sunday morning that you heard the woman shout for 
help?’ ‘Yes, your Honor, positively.” ‘‘This affair occurred 
some months ago, Couldn’t it have been Saturday morning, 
or Monday morning, instead of Sunday morning?” ‘Impossible, 
your Honor,” “But why?’ insisted the Judge. ‘‘Man’s 
Inemory 1s not infallible. Why are you so positive that it was 
Sunday morning?’ ‘Because when [ first heard the ory Or 
help 1 was out in the back yard digging angleworms,”—N, Y, 
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POINTERS AT NEW YORK. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I don’t propose to reply in detail to Mr. Mason’s letter which 
appeared in your paper last week, since it is so full of false 
statements and insinuations, that it would compel the denial 
of each and everyone. Justice to myself and others, however, 
compels me to deny his assertion that I ever had any pecuniary 
interest in the paper he mentions, or ever conteibuted one 
cent toward it other than my subscription and advertise- 
ments, for which I always paid the regular advertised rates, 
I feel confident the same can be said of Mr, Sterling, Mr. 
Pilkington of England, who bred Meteor, sent him to St, 
Louis saying he was by Garnet and out of Jilt. This is 
sufficient. My, A. C, Waddell of Topeka, Kan., writes me 
under date of the 24 inst. ‘Mr. Mason has no authority in any 
way to state that I said Beaufort is a better dog than Meteor, 
* *% # T never said so.” Joun W. Munson, 
Sr, Louis, Jnly 26. 
THE LAVERACK SETTERS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
It is yery evident that ‘‘Rusticus,” in reply to my hastily- 
written article under the above heading, which appeared in 
ForREST AND STREAM of July 17, intends that I shall better 
explain myself after using the following sentence in reference 
to the Laverack setters: ‘“‘In the stud they are priceless, in 
the field useless.” It was, perhaps, unfortunate that I was so 
emphatic in placing a great yalue on the dogs of this breed 
for stud purposes without more fully describing where f 
thought the greatest benefit would be derived from the blood. 
After haying pues out in my letter the faults of the Lay- 
erack setters | had imported and bred as I saw them (and I 
am free to confess every failing noticed should never be pos- 
sessed by a field dog), the high-appearing quality of the breed, 
their fine texture of coat and general symmetry of outline are 
points to be desired in every setter, more especially in those 
that are being bred for bench show purposes. Tt was just here 
where I intended it to be mown that the Laverack blood, in 
my opinion, was most useful if it could be utilized without 
carrying with it the baneful taint that would be hurtful in a 
field dog, and expressed myself that the breed was useless for 
working purposes. I am sure others who have had any 6x- 
perience with the Laverack setters will agree with me in ref- 
erence to the faults I have named, and it surprises me when 
“‘Rusticus,” who has seen almost as much of the breed as my- 
self, makes it appear by writing “if ‘Homo? is correct in his 
premises that he is of different opinion, I yield the palm to 
him as a much older and more experienced breeder than my- 
self, and am sure the readers of ForrsT anp STREAM would 
be greatly interested in- learning his estimation of the Lay- 
erack setter and that of all unbiased sportsmen who haye 
owned and tried them in the field.” Come, Tages 
omo, 
THE POINTER PROTEST. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The following extracts from a letter which appeared m a 
Western contemporary last week calls for a reply: 
“New York.—I think, out of respect to the gentlemen who have 
been insulted by this protest and in justice to myself, I should make 
an explanation as to the manner in which my name becaine signed as 
one of the protestators against the pointer judging at the New York 
show. Mr. Mason called at my office and informed me that all the 
pointer exhibitors were going to sign a protest against Mr. Sterling’s 
decisions and wished to know if I would signit. I told him I would 
consider the matter. I needed but a short time for consideration, and 
sent him a letter saying that I would not sign the protest. [also 
wrote tomy friend, Mr, A. A. Whipple (who was an exhibitor). and 
requested him not tosign the protest, and no one could haye been 
more surprised than myself when my name appeared. Tshould have 
considered myself ungrateful had I consented to have my name at- 
tached to the protest after [learned the nature of it. IT should have 
sent to you this explanation sooner, but on account of sickness in my 
family I was detained at my country home.—A, McCoxiom,” 
First let me ask what Mr. McCollom means by ‘‘out of re- 
spect to the gentlemen who have been insulted by this protest.” 
Unless Mr. McCollomis permanently blind, he must have seen 
that th » protest was against the decisions of Mr. Sterling. Mr. 
MecCollom says I called at his oitice. Mr. McCollom wrote me 
requesting me to call at his house (not at his office), ashe 
wished tosee me in regard to breeding a bitch (owned by Mr. 
Whipple of Kansas city, Mo.) to Beaufort, There is a slight 
difference between calling at a person’s house and being sent 
for, at least [imagine so, Beforeleaving Mr. McCollom’s house 
(not his office) I alluded to the protest. Mr. M. asked me. 
for the names of those who had already imdorsed 
it, and after hearing them told me to add his name. 
Lasked him if he thought that Mr. Whipple would wish to in- 
dorse the protest, and he replied that he would write Mr. W, 
I took the precaution, however, to write Mr. W. myself, and 
that gentleman replied that though many of the decisions 
were altogether at variance with his ideas, he did not feel 
justified in allowing the use of his name, as he had not had a 
lengthy experience. That was honest. ff Mr, McCollom ever 
wrote me to take his name off the list (which I don’t believe 
lve did), alll can say is that Inever received his letter. Mr. 
McCollom says that Mr. W. isa friend of his, He may be, but 
oue thing is certain, and that is that Mr. M. never saw Mr. W. 
but once, and that at the last New York show. Mr, 
McCollom would have sent his explanation sooner, ‘bub 
on account of sickness in his family he was detamed 
at his count home,” ete. It r. MeCollom will 
giye himself the trouble to look into the columns of the paper 
