. The food and game fishes of New York: . 5 pounds. Asa food fish the Long-nosed Sucker is little esteemed ; but in cold countries the headand roe are usctl in making a palatable soup. The males in the breeding season, in spring, are profusely covered with tubercleson the head and fins and have a broad rosy band along the middle of the body. Inthe Yukon Ri\er, Alaska, Dr. Dall found the fish filled with spawn in April. Theeggs are of moderate size and \cll()w in color. Nelson has seen this species seinedby Eskimo in brackish estuaries of streams flowing into Kotzebue Sound. \\. has co
. The food and game fishes of New York: . 5 pounds. Asa food fish the Long-nosed Sucker is little esteemed ; but in cold countries the headand roe are usctl in making a palatable soup. The males in the breeding season, in spring, are profusely covered with tubercleson the head and fins and have a broad rosy band along the middle of the body. Inthe Yukon Ri\er, Alaska, Dr. Dall found the fish filled with spawn in April. Theeggs are of moderate size and \cll()w in color. Nelson has seen this species seinedby Eskimo in brackish estuaries of streams flowing into Kotzebue Sound. \\. has collecteil specimens on the jieninsula of Alaska. This was not founil in Cayuga Lake basin by Dr. Meek, but it occurs in theAdirondack region, ami Dr. Meek believes it is a member of the Cayuga Lake Evermann obtained fi\e specimens at Grenadier Island, N. Y., June 28, 1894. The small race found by I^red Mather in the Adirondacks is the ordinary dwarfform characteristic of mountain regions. He discovered four individuals, only 4^. LONG-NOSED SUCKER. inches long, but mature and breeding in a little mountain brook emptying intoBig Moose nearly north of tlie Big Moose Club House, b\- a bark shanty known as Pancake Hall. The fish were spawning, and he discovered manj- eggs under thestones. Tlie females were brown with white on belly, the male with red stripe onthe side. 21. Common Sucker (C(itostoi/n<s cointiursoiiii Lacepede). Catostomus teres Bean, Fishes Penna., 25, 1893. Catosiomiispallidits DeKav, N. Y. Fauna, Fislies, 200, pi. 2,1, fig. 104, £J/w////j-(•(WW(VJ6////Jordan & EvKRM.\NN, Bull. 47, IL S. Nat. Mus., I, 178, 1896,pi. 34, lig. 83, 1900. The Common Sucker is also known as the Pale Sucker, White Sucker, GraySucker, Brook Sucker, ami, among the Prench, as carpc blanche. It is thecommonest member of its genus in waters east of the Rock\- Mountains. It is THE FOOD AND (JAME FISHES OF NEW YORK. 279 found from Canada to Florida and westward to
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