The food and game fishes of New York: . - verified in the aquarium onexamples obtained in Canandaigua Lake in November, 1896, by Mr. Annin. Know-ing that tlie species usually subsists on small mollusks and crustaceans, efforts weremade to pro\-idc the fish with ///].ur and Caiiiiiianis : but tiiis became difficult inwinter, and an experiment was made with small Killifish (Fundnliis hctcroclitiis andmajalis], which pro\ed satisfactor\- during the cold months. In summer, however,it was found necessary to return to the use of (laiimianis. The Wliitcfish at firsttook the Killifisli without any eag
The food and game fishes of New York: . - verified in the aquarium onexamples obtained in Canandaigua Lake in November, 1896, by Mr. Annin. Know-ing that tlie species usually subsists on small mollusks and crustaceans, efforts weremade to pro\-idc the fish with ///].ur and Caiiiiiianis : but tiiis became difficult inwinter, and an experiment was made with small Killifish (Fundnliis hctcroclitiis andmajalis], which pro\ed satisfactor\- during the cold months. In summer, however,it was found necessary to return to the use of (laiimianis. The Wliitcfish at firsttook the Killifisli without any eagerness, but they soon learned to chase their preyand take it much as trout SMELT. 52. Smelt of New York Lakes yArj^ynisonnts osmcriformis H. Vi. Smith). Corc^onus osmcrijonnis SMrrn, Bull. IJ. S. F. C, XIV, j. ].l. i, fig. 2, 1895, Lakes Seneca and Skaneateles, New hoyi&, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 658, 1883 ; Ooode, Fish and Fish. Ind. U. S., I, pi. 197 B, 1884; not Coregonus hoyi <^A\\.Argyrosoiiuis osiiicriformis Jordan & Evermann, 47, U. .S. Xat. Mus., I, 468, 1896. Body elongate, moderately compressed, slender; head less compressed thanbody, its greatest width ecpialing one-half of distance from tip of lower jaw to nape ;the lower jaw projecting considerably even when the is closed ; mouth large,the maxillary reaching to the vertical through the anterior margin of the pupil ;preorbital bone long and slender, more than one-third as long as the head ; supra-orbital as long as the eye, four times as long as broad. The greatest height of the body is considerably less than the length of head,and is contained five
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