NOTES ON SOME FRESH-WATER FISHES FROM MAINE, WITH 
DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES. 
By WILLIAM CONVERSE KENDALL, 
Assistant, United States Fish Commission . 
About forty years ago Ezekiel Holmes published a list of the fishes of Marne, “ 
chiefly compiled and containing but few fresh-water species. Over thirty years later 
the present writer published a report * 2 * * * 6 upon an investigation of the fresh waters of 
Washington County, which contained about the first record of observations upon 
Maine fresh-water fishes since Holmes’s publication. Prior to this time there had 
been no systematic collecting in the inland waters of the State. In the four years 
immediately following some small collections were made, upon which there has been 
no detailed report. 
In 1898 the United States Fish Commission, realizing that knowledge directly 
valuable to fish-culture and indirectly to the public could be derived from a study of 
the landlocked salmon and its native habitat, detailed the author to make such an 
investigation of Sebago Lake basin. Since then up to the present time the fresh 
waters of Maine have received considerable attention and a large amount of important 
information has been obtained. 
In ten years 22 salt and fresh water species not previously recorded from the 
State, 12 of which are fresh-water'' forms and 3 of which are new to science, have 
been found. This raises the list of native fresh-water (including anadromous) fishes 
from 35 to 47 species. Others have had their recorded range considerably extended 
in the State, and some which have not been recorded since their description, or known, 
perhaps, from only a single locality, have been found widely distributed. These 
statements are not astonishing when the great extent of the fresh waters in the State 
and the small amount of work done there are taken into consideration. There still 
remains a large unexplored area, and doubtless other forms new to the State and 
perhaps new to science may be discovered. 
It is not the aim of this paper to enter into the details of the results of this work, 
this being reserved for a future more comprehensive paper, but to call attention to 
a few interesting fresli-water species of Maine fishes and put on record some obser- 
vations regarding them. 
a Second Annual Report upon the Natural History and Geology of Maine, 1862. 
''Notes on the Fresh- water Fishes of Washington County, Me. (Bulletin U. S. Fish Commission 1899, 43.) 
c The additions to the fresh-water faunal list other than those mentioned in this paper are ( 1 ) Clirosomus cri/lhroijaster, 
(2) Semotilus atromaculatus, (3) Notropis nmskoka, (4) Cotiesias plumbeus, (5) Fundulus diaphanux, (6) Eucalia inconstant;. 
Of marine species there are a number recorded in general range but mentioned from no definite locality in Maine, 
of which no account has been taken. The salt-water additions not recorded as extending so far north as Maine are 
(1) Narcine occidentalis, (2) Gasterosteus whcatlandi, (3) Mugil curema, (4) Slcnotomus chrysops, (5) Centropr islets xtriulm, 
(6) Menticirrhus saxatilis, (7) Prionotlis caroiinus, (8) Spheroid es maculatus, (9) Lophopsctta maculata, and (10) Macrurus 
bairdi, of which M, saxatilis and M. bairdi have not previously been noted, 
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