COMMON PIKE. 915 
Its habits are like those of its Eastern relative, Hsox reticulatus, which 
Thoreau describes as “the swiftest, wariest, and most ravenous of fishes, 
which Josselyn calls the River Wolf. It is a solemn, stately, ruminant 
fish, lurking under the shadow of a pad at noon, with still, circumspect, 
voracious eye; motionless as a jewel set in water, or moving slowly along 
to take up its position ; darting from time to time at such unlucky fish 
or frog or insect as comes within its range, and swallowing it at a gulp. 
Sometimes a striped snake, bound to greener meadows across the stream, 
ends its undulatory progress in the same receptacle.” 
109. Esox Lucius Linnezeus. 
Common Pike; Lake Pickerel. 
* Synonymy for European Specimens. 
Lucius, BFLLON, De Aquat., 296.—RONDELET, ii, 188.—SatLy., 94, 95.—ScHONEVELDE, 
44.—ALDROVANDI, De Pisc., 630.—JONSTON, iii, t. 3, c. 5, t. 29, f. 1—-GusnER, Do 
Pisc., 500.—WILLOUGHBY, 236, tab., 5, f 2.—Ray, Syn., 112.—K ein, Miss. Pisc., v. 
74, tab. 20, f. 1. 
_ Keox No.1, ARTEDI, Synon., 26; Gen. p. 10, and Spec. 53.—GroNOvVivs, Zoophy]. No. 361 
Esox lucius, L., Syst. Nat., i, 516—BuLocn, Fische Deutschl., i, 229, t. 32; Bl. Schn., 390, 
—LACEPEDE, V. p. 297.—REISINGER, Prod. Ichth. Hung, 47.—DONONAN, Brit. Fishes, 
v. pl. 109.—FLEM., Brit. Ann., 184.—JURINE, Mem. Soc. Phys. et Hist. Nat. Geneve, 
iii, 1825, 231, pl. 15.—ErKsTRoM, Fische Morko, 78.—F R18 and ERKSTROM, Scand. 
Fisk., 49, t. 10 —NiLsson, Prodr. 36, and Scand. Faun. Fisk., 348.—PALLas, Zoogr. 
Ross.-As, iii, 336.—PARNELL, Wern. Mem., vii, 272—YaRRELL, Brit. Fishes, ist Ed., 
1 pl., 383; 2d Ed, 1 pl., 434; 3d Ed., 1, 343.—SmLys-Lonecu., Faune Belge, 223.— 
Cov. and VAL., xviii, 278.—KroyeEr, Danm. Fisk., 236 —Gronovivs, Syst. Ed. Gray, 
146.—GUNTHER, Fische des Neckars, 107.—Rapp, Fische des Bodensees, 11.—HECKEL 
and KNER, Susswasserfische, 287.—SIEBOLD, Susswasserfische, 325.—GUNTHER, Cat. 
Fishes Brit. Mus., vi, 226, and of all authors since Linnzus. 
The Pike; Hecht; Brochet; Lucio or Luzzo, Gadda (Sweden). 
Synonymy for American Specimens. 
Esox estor, LESUEUR, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1818, 413.—GunruHeEr, Cat. Fishes 
Brit. Mus., vi, 1867, 228 (Excl. syn. pars. Not of Richardson, DeKay, and others, 
which is £, nobilior, Thompson). 
Esox lucius, var. esior, JORDAN, Man. Vert., 1876, 255.—NELSON, Bull, Ills. Mus. Nat. 
Hist., 1876.— JORDAN and COPELAND, Check List Fishes, 1876, 143. 
Esoxz lucius, RICHARDSON, Fauna Bor.-Amer. Fishes, iii, 1836, i24.—DrKay, New York 
Fauna, Fishes, 1842, 226.—StoreR, Synopsis Fishes N. A., 1846, 438.—Corx, Proe. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 79.—Corr, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. Phila., 1866, 408.— 
GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., vi, 1867; 227.—JorDAN, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 
1877, 55.— JORDAN, Man. Vert., 2d Ed., 1878, 266.—JoRDAN, Bull. U. S. Geol, Surv. 
Terr., 1878, 432. 
* Copied from Gunther Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., vi, 1867, p. 286. 
