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elevation, and its proportions much stronger in body, fins, and scales." He records no difference 

 in the shape of the snout, which for artedi is "pointed." The figure of albus made by LeSueur 

 himself is distinctly not a Coregonus. 



Richardson, John, 1823. — Coregonus quadrilateralis from "the small rivers about Fort Enter- 

 prise and in the Arctic Sea" is described. The description is recognizable and is accompanied by a 

 crude cut. A fish is described as C. albus, which is undoubtedly the whitefish, and the tullibee 

 is mentioned under the name C. artedi ?. 



Richardson, John, 1836. — On page 201 of this publication (Fauna Boreali- Americana, Vol. Ill) 

 is given a description of Salmo (Coregonus) tullibee from Cumberland House, Pine Island Lake, lati- 

 tude 54° N., and on page 204 quadrilateralis from Great Bear Lake, latitude 64^° N. is more fully 

 described and better figured than in the preceding publication. In the same volume are described 

 (on p. 206) labradoricus from Musquaw River, Gulf of St. Lawrence, (on p. 207) lucidus from Great 

 Bear Lake, and (on p. 210) harengus from Penetanguishene in Georgian Bay, Lake Huron. All 

 but tullibee and labradoricus are figured. 



Storer, D. H., 1846. — Storer gives a list of the North American coregonids that had been 

 described up to 1846, together with the synonomy of each. 



Agassiz, Louis, 1850. — In this work the name Argyrosomus was first proposed to designate 

 the whitefishes having the lower jaw longer than the upper, in contrast with the true Coregonus, 

 with a truncated snout and included lower jaw. The name Argyrosomus was already occupied 

 and has been replaced provisionally by Jordan and Evermann with Dybowski's Leucichthys. Two 

 new species from Lake Superior, Coregonus sapidissimus and latior, are described, but neither is 

 valid. 



Prescott, W., 1851. — Two new species of Coregonus are described from Lake Winnepesaukee, 

 N. H. — neo-hantoniensis and nov-anglix. These have been considered subsequently as synonyms 

 of clupeaformis and quadrilaterale. 



Girard, Charles, 1856. — A species of Coregonus from Des Chutes River, Oreg., is described 

 inadequately as williamsoni. 



Gunther, Albert, 1866. — All American forms are described with synonomy and a description of 

 C. richardsonii, from " Arctic North America," is given for the first time. 



Hoy, P. R., 1872. — Hoy makes mention of two species of Argyrosomus, of which he had sent 

 specimens to Gill and which Gill named hoyi and nigripinnis but did not describe. While Hoy 

 gives no technical description of either fish, and only two mutilated specimens, both of which are 

 labelled hoyi, are preserved in the United States National Museum, it is certain that the fish Hoy 

 referred to as nigripinnis is the blackfin. He says of it that it has black fins and lives off Racine 

 in water over 60 fathoms in depth. The two specimens, 53^ and 7J4 inches long without the caudal 

 (catalogue No. 8902, U. S. National Museum), are called "mooneyes" in his account. Of the 

 "mooneye" he says that it is the smallest of the whitefishes, being only about 8 inches lo6g, and is 

 found in water over 40 fathoms deep. Hoy's specimens are too small to have been gilledin the com- 

 mercial nets and were, according to the statement of Charles Hyttel, sr., who furnished them to Doc- 

 tor Hoy, brought in with the bloaters and a few immature chubs that had entangled their jaws in 

 the nets. As the bloater is the only species commonly caught in this way, it is likely that Hoy 

 had this fish in mind as the "mooneye." One of the specimens (No. 8902) is a bloater and has 

 been selected by me as the type; the other is a chub, either alpense, reighardi, or zenithicus. The 

 only description of hoyi based on Hoy's specimens was made by Hugh M. Smith (1894). Smith, 

 however, did not recognize the fact that the two fish were not of the same species and apparently 

 based his description on both. 



Milner, J. W., 1874a. 2 — On page 86 Milner describes Argyrosomus hoyi, A. nigripinnis, and 

 Coregonus couesii. Hoyi and nigripinnis had been named by Doctor Gill and mentioned by Hoy 

 in 1872. Milner's nigripinnis is from Lake Michigan and is the same fish referred to by Hoy. 

 Hoyi is described from Lake Superior, but the description is wholly insufficient. Under the United 

 States National Museum catalogue No. 10576 (not 10756, as given in Milner's text) are entered the 

 three specimens of Milner's account — two specimens of zenithicus and one of hoyi. The description 



' H. M. Smith, Bulletin, TJ. S. Fish Commission for 1894, Vol. XIV, on p. 7, says: "The report was certainly not issued in 

 1874 ' * ' and the indications are that the report was not printed before May or June, 1875. " 



