Published Monthly at the New York Aquarium, cor. 35th Street and Broadway. 
VOL. 1. 
NEW YORK, MAY, 1877. 
NO. 10. 
A FEW FRESH WATER FISH. 
So faithfully has the artist, whose work is 
befoie us, performed his duties, that it will 
not be needed to add to his truthful portrayal 
of these fresh water fish any extended descrip¬ 
tion of their forms aud external peculiarities 
habits. In the great fresh water tank 43 we 
find an interesting company of these native 
fish, many of which will be recognized as 
those with which every American is famil¬ 
ial - , while a few may be, and doubtless are, 
new and strange to the eastern visitor. 
To this latter class belong the gar pikes, 
IE, directing 
iper space, 
of structure, 
fore, to several of the more interesting spe¬ 
cies of the fresh water fish now to be seen at 
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illustration, 
to be recognized by their slim bodies 
has in the May number of the Popular Science 
Monthly given an exhaustive review of the 
habits and structure of this interesting and 
peculiar fish, and as the specimens in the 
Aquarium are very fine ones the reader can 
Supplement the information given by Prof. 
Wilder by a personal examination o f the fis 
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7 ue7pYpixes, we are here told, are not 
found in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia or 
THE GAR-PIKE, CAT-FISH, EEL-POUT, FRESH-WATER DOG-FISH. 
the Aquarium, a brief reference will only be 
made to certain characteristic points relating 
to their internal structure or their special 
aud their long pointed jaws. Prof. But t' G. 
Wilder, to whom we have already acknowl¬ 
edged our indebtedness for services rendered, 
South America, while ^in North|America they 
seem to be nearly confined to the Mississippi 
river and its tributaries. The body is described 
