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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
Leucichthys artedi bisselli (Bollman). Rawson Lake Herring; Bissell’s Herring. 
Coregonus tullibee bisselli Bollman, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. viii, p. 223, 1888, Rawson Lake and Howard Lake* 
Michigan. 
Argyrosomus tullibee bisselli, Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., pt. 1, p. 473, 1898. 
Habitat: Glacial lakes of southern Michigan once tributary to Lake Erie. 
A large plump lake herring was described by Charles Harvey Bollman in 1888, from Rawson and 
Howard lakes at Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo County, Mich., in connection with his survey of the fish 
fauna of southern Michigan. Because of its robust form it was regarded by Bollman as a subspecies 
of the tullibee. Its relationships are, however, wholly with artedi, of which it may be regarded 
as a subspecies. The accompanying description and figure are taken by us from Bollman’s type, no. 
40619, U. S. National Museum: 
Head contained 4.5 in length without caudal; depth 3.5; depth of caudal peduncle 2.33 in head; 
eye 5.2; snout 5; interorbital space 3.66; length of maxillary from tip of snout 3.25 in head; dorsal 11; 
anal 1 1 ; scales in lateral line 77, between dorsal and lateral line 10, between ventral and lateral line 9, 
and between occiput and dorsal 30; branchiostegals 9. Gillrakers 16-1-29,0.75 diameter of eye in length. 
Body strongly compressed, its width from side to side contained 1.83 in head; dorsal outline 
arched upward strongly from head; ventral outline convex; head flat dorsally, pointed; snout rounded; 
Fig. 10. — Leucichthys artedi bisselli (Bollman). Rawson Lake herring. (Drawn from a specimen 
13 inches long, collected in Howard Lake, Michigan.) 
lower jaw slightly longer than upper; maxillary extending to below anterior edge of pupil, the supple- 
mental parts three times as long as broad; width of opercle 3 in head. Dorsal inserted midway between 
snout and caudal base, its longest ray 1.5 in head; adipose base 6 in head, length from insertion to 
tip 3.33 in head; anal base 2.33 in head, longest ray 2.25, and its scale 2.5 in ray length. 
Color in spirits, light olive, somewhat darker above; sides silvery; dorsal fin clear, edged with 
dark, other fins clear. 
This subspecies is slightly more robust than L. artedi, but no differences of importance set it off 
from the lake form from which it is no doubt derived. 
Leucichthys eriensis (Jordan 8e Evermann). Jumbo Herring; Erie Great Herring. 
Argyrosomus eriensis Jordan & Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. xxxvi, March 3, 1909, p. 165, fig. 1, Lake 
Erie at Port Stanley. 
Habitat: Lake Erie, northward. 
This species inhabits especially the north shore of I.ake Erie, where it is extremely abundant. As 
a food fish it is far superior to the other lake herrings and is as good as the best whitefish. The original 
type came from Port Stanley. Besides the type we have examples from Port Burwell and Point Ron- 
deau. Reports of jumbo herring from Toronto have reached us, but these probably refer to large 
examples of the local species. As the fishes from Port Stanley are largely sold in Toronto, it is possible 
that the reference is to Lake Erie examples of the present species 
