. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. 2 7 6 AMERICAN FISHES. Russia and Siberia, but does not enter those of the Trans-Caucasus and the Crimea. On the south it enters Roumania, and has been found in the Lake of St. Stefanos, near Constantinople, in the lagoons of Venice, in Switzerland and France, but not in the Iberian peninsula. It is found in all parts of Germany, not only in the high mountain region, but along the sea-coast of Northern Germany, and even close tt) the shores of
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. 2 7 6 AMERICAN FISHES. Russia and Siberia, but does not enter those of the Trans-Caucasus and the Crimea. On the south it enters Roumania, and has been found in the Lake of St. Stefanos, near Constantinople, in the lagoons of Venice, in Switzerland and France, but not in the Iberian peninsula. It is found in all parts of Germany, not only in the high mountain region, but along the sea-coast of Northern Germany, and even close tt) the shores of the Baltic. The highest vertical distribution on the northern side of the Alps is in the Tyrolean Lake of Halden, 3,618 feet. On the south, it occurs in certain lakes of the Tyrol, and in the Lake of Reschen, 4,637 feet, which is apparently the loftiest point of its distribution. In Switzerland, according to Tschudi, it ranges to 3,398 feet. The climate of England and Germany seems suited to its best develop- ment, and its persistence in low latitudes will probably be found to be due to a special adaptability for hybernation. The Muskellunge, Esox nobilior, is the rival of the Pike in size and vigor, but is very limited in its geographical range, occurring only in the Great Lake region of America, and in the St. Lawrence River.* It is very like the Pike, but has a head proportionally 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 flecked with black. The Pike on the other 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 THE CHAIN PICKEKEL, The " Pickerels," of American nomenclature, are three in number, and * It has frequently been said in print that Muskellunge were introduced into a pond near Bellow
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