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APPENDIX. 



[No. VI. 



The individual, from which the description was more particularly drawn up, was a 

 male fifteen inches long from the nose to the caudal fin. It was selected as being of 

 medium size, and there did not appear to be any difference in external form betwixt 

 the sexes. 



As this fish occurs abundantly in the places from whence Pennant received his sea 

 gwiniad, and as no other fish answering to the description of the gwiniad is known 

 to the traders, I have quoted him with doubt. The round-fish differs from the 

 gwiniad of British Zoology in the number of the rays in all the fins, in the ventrals 

 not being blue, and in the want of the deep blue spots on the belly. La Bezole, 

 Rondelet, sur les Poissons des Lacs, p. 119, bears a strong resemblance to our 

 fish, but the description there given is not sufficient to enable me to decide whether 

 they are the same or not. 



It also resembles the S. Wartmanni Bloch, t. 105, in form, but differs in the 

 number of branchiostegous, dorsal, and anal rays. 



Hiodon Clodalis. Gold Eye. 



H. clodalis. Le Sueur Journal of Academy of Sciences Philad. 1. p. 367 t. 14. 



This singular and beautiful fish, resembling in its habits the small trouts, is caught 

 in nets at Cumberland-House in the spring, but not in sufficient quantity to be of 

 importance in an economical point of view. 



It is named oweepeetcheesees by the Cree Indians, and naccaysh and gold eye by 

 the traders. 



Clupea Harengus. L. Common Herring. 



A pretty extended description of a herring, caught in Bathurst's Inlet on August 

 5th, has been compared with the common herrings brought to the London market 

 in January, and found to agree exactly. The roe of the herrings we caught was very 

 small. 



Esox Lucius? Pike or Jack. 



The pike abounds in every lake in the northern parts of America, and contributes 

 much to the support of the Indians, as it is the only fish that is readily caught with 

 the hook in the winter time ; from which circumstance it has obtained the name of 

 eithinyoo-cannooshceoo or Indian fish. The Hudson's Bay pike, referred in Pennant's 

 Arctic Zoology to the common species, seems to differ from it in some respects ; but 

 without further opportunities of comparison, we cannot venture to pronounce them 

 to be distinct. 



