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bulletin of the bureau of fisheries. 
Mr. Charles W. Triggs, a dealer in fish in Chicago, tells us that he recently had a consignment of 
fish of this species sent from the North Channel to Chicago. There was no sale for them. The flesh 
was poor and flavorless, almost worthless as food, in comparison with the other fishes of the Great 
Lakes. This is said to be the only species of the tullibee type, or Allosomus, found in the Great Lakes, 
and it is confined to the northern region of Lake Huron and perhaps of Lake Superior and the smaller 
lakes of Minnesota 
Leucichthys tullibee (Richardson). Tullibee; Tulipi. 
Salmo ( Coregonus ) tullibee Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Amer., vol. ur, p. 201, 1836, Cumberland House, Pine Island 
Lake (near Lake Winnipeg). 
Coregonus tullibee, Gunther, Cat., vol. vi, p. 199, 1866, Albany River. Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, p. 301, 1883. 
Argyrosomus tullibee, Evermann & Smith, Rept. U. S. Fish Comin. 1894, p. 320, pi. 28, 1896. Jordan & Evermann, 
Fishes North and Mid. Amer., pt. 1, p. 473, 1898. 
Habitat: Winnipeg basin, perhaps entering Lake Superior. 
We have critically examined the following specimens of the tullibee type: One 13.75 inches long; 
from Waubegon Lake at Oxdrift, Ontario; one 12.5 inches long, from Rainy Lake at Rainier, Minn., 
one 9 inches long, from Lake of the Woods at Warroad, Minn.; a specimen 18 inches long, presumably 
from Minnesota, figured by Evermann & Smith in their whitefish paper; one 14 inches long, sent to 
Fig. 17. — Leucichthys tullibee (, Richardson). Tullibee. (Drawn from specimen 12.5 inches long, 
collected in Rainy Lake, Rainier, Minn.) 
the Bureau of Fisheries by Dr. G. A. MacCallum of Dunnville, Ontario, presumably from Lake Simcoe; 
one 14 inches long, from Oneida Lake, N. Y. ; two specimens 4.62 and 5.5 inches long, from Kettle 
Falls, Minnesota. 
Head 4 in body without caudal; depth 3; depth of caudal peduncle 2.5 in head, its length 3, as 
measured from last ray of anal to first of caudal; eye 4; snout 4; interorbital space 1.25 in eye, 3.5 in 
head; length of maxillary from tip of snout 3 ; dorsal 12; anal 12; scales in lateral line 67 to 72; between 
dorsal fin and occiput 28; branchiostegals 9; gillrakers 16+34- 
Body very deep, elliptical, its width a little less than half the depth; dorsal outline convex, curved 
strongly upward from the snout; ventral outline nearly as convex as dorsal; head arched slightly 
dorsally from snout to occiput, premaxillaries continuing the curve of the head; jaws nearly equal in 
front but the lower contained in the upper; maxillaries extending to below the anterior edge of the 
pupil, their supplementaries 2.5 times as long as wide and about half their width; scales large, rather 
firm, lateral line nearly straight. 
Dorsal truncate, inserted midway between the occiput and adipose fin, its highest ray 1.33 in head; 
adipose fin large, its base equal to its height, measured from insertion to free tip, 3.5 in head; longest 
