. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. 176 AMERICAX FrSTFES. Russia and Siberia, Imt docs not enter tliose of the Trans-Caucasus, and the Crimea. On the south it enters Rouniania, and has been found in the Lake of St. Stefanos, near Constantinople, in the hiyoons of \'enire. w Swit/erhmd and l-'rance, but not in the Iberian jjeninsula. It is found in all i)arts of Clermany, not only in the hiL;h nioinitain region, but alont; the sea-ro
. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. 176 AMERICAX FrSTFES. Russia and Siberia, Imt docs not enter tliose of the Trans-Caucasus, and the Crimea. On the south it enters Rouniania, and has been found in the Lake of St. Stefanos, near Constantinople, in the hiyoons of \'enire. w Swit/erhmd and l-'rance, but not in the Iberian jjeninsula. It is found in all i)arts of Clermany, not only in the hiL;h nioinitain region, but alont; the sea-roast of Northern Cermany. and even close to the shores of the IJattic. The highest vertical distribution on the northern side of the Alps, is in the 'i'yrolean Lake of llahlen, feet. On the south, it occurs in certain lakes of the Tyrol, and in the Lake of Reschen, 4,6157 feet, which is ap])arently the loftiest jjoint of its distribution. In Switzerland, a(cording to Tsciiudi, it ranges to 3,39s feet. Tlie ( liniate of Ilngland and Cermany seems suited to its best de\elop- ment, and its persistence in low latitudes will probably be found to be due to a sjjecial adaptability for hybernati(jn. The Muskellunge, Jisox nohilioi\ is the ri\al of the I'ike in si/e and vigor, but is very limited in its gecjgraphical range, occurring onlv in the Creat Lake region of America, and in the St. Lawrence River.* It is very like the Pike, but has a head pro] ortionally somewhat larger, and its color is markedly different. In general hue, it is dark grey, with silvery lustre, belly white, sides dotted with round, blackish and brownish blotches, and the fins fleeted with black. The I'ike on the otiier hand has • its markings white or yellowish, upon a darker background of green, dark grey or brown ; in European examples the lighter markings are often con- fluent and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for
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