A REVIEW OF THE SALMONOID FISHES OF THE GREAT LAKES, 
WITH NOTES ON THE WHITEFISHES OF OTHER REGIONS. 
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By DAVID STARR JORDAN and BARTON WARREN EVERMANN® 
In the investigations of the fisheries of the Great Lakes region conducted in 1908 
and 1909 by the International Fisheries Commission the writers had opportunity to 
examine great numbers of specimens of the food fishes and especially of the Core- 
goninae, known as whitefish and lake herring. It has been clearly shown that the fauna 
of each of the Great Lakes exhibits peculiarities of its own, and especially that each 
lake has one or more species of the group called lake herrings or ciscoes peculiar to itself. 
In this paper the species of these and other groups of fresh-water Salmonidse are treated 
and figured somewhat fully. The specimens described are in the United States National 
Museum, with series of duplicates in the museum of Stanford University. The following 
species are described as new: 
Leucichthys supernas, Leucichthys cyanopterus, Leucichthys manitoulinus , Leucichthys ontariensis, 
. Leucichthys harengus arcturus. 
Three others from the same collections have been previously described and figured 
(Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. xxxvi, p. 165-172) by Jordan & Evermann: 
Leucichthys huronius, Leucichthys eriensis , Leucichthys zenithicus. 
Genus SALVELINUS (Nilsson) Richardson. 
Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill). Eastern Brook Trout. 
The common brook trout occurs in all cold streams and in some lakes throughout this region. It 
occurs freely in Lake Superior but not in any other of the Great Lakes. In the streams of Isle Royale 
a variety almost jet-black in color is said to occur. 
0 In the preparation of this paper the authors have had the assistance of William Francis Thompson, of .Stanford 
University. Most of the text figures were drawn by William Sackston Atkinson, and the colored plates are from paintings 
made by Charles Bradley Hudson. 
48299° — Bull. 29 — II 1 
