Catalogue of the Fishes of New York (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...The inland lakes, in the central and western part of the state, almost all communicate w r ith Lake Ontario. Chautauqua lake belongs to the Ohio basin. Lake Otsego and two small lakes east of Keuka lake, empty into the Susquehanna. The Adirondack lakes for the most part belong to the St Lawrence drainage basin, some of them emptying into Lake Champlain, and a few 7 into the upper waters of the Hudson. Long Island has a larger number of species than all the remainder of the state. The number of marine species in its waters is 217, and its fresh w r aters contain 27 species, of w r hich 13 have been recently introduced. In the bays of the south side of the island, wherein the water is brackish or nearly fresh, and where there is a luxuriant growth of water plants, young menhaden and alewives are extremely abundant. One of the fresh-water fishes is a hybrid trout, artifically produced; another is the black-nosed dace, which is perhaps doubtfully recorded from Long Island; and 13 species have been recently introduced, as before remarked. The permanent residents in fresh water are the following: horn pout, chub sucker, roach, brook trout, striped mud minnow, banded pickerel, chain pickerel, fresh-water killy, pirate perch, fresh-water silverside, sunfish, yellow perch, and Johnny darter. Most of these 13 species, or perhaps all of them, could easily have been introduced by man within the last century or tw r o. Mitchill recorded only three fresh-water species from Long Island. These are: yellow perch, brook trout and pickerel. To the pickerel he applied the name Esox lucius, a species which does not occur on the island. He mentioned also the bony-scaled pike, Esox osseus, concerning which he says: A few years ago I had a large and complete...