The food and game fishes of New York: . RT OK THE FOREST, EISII AND GAME COMMISSION. 139. Burbot ; Lawyer; Ling [Lota maculosa LeSueur). Gadiis maiii/osiis , Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Fhila., I, 83, 1817, Lake Erie. Gadiis laciistris MncHiLU, Am. Month. Mag., II, 244, February, 1818. Lota inoniata , N. Y. Fauna, Fish., 283, \>\. 45, fig. 145, 1842, Hudson River. Lota compressa DeKay, op. cit. 285, pi. 78, figs. 244, 245, 1842. Lota maculosa DeKay, op. cit. 284, pi. 52, fig. 168, 1842; & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., , 1883; Meek, Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci., IV, 315, 1888, Cay
The food and game fishes of New York: . RT OK THE FOREST, EISII AND GAME COMMISSION. 139. Burbot ; Lawyer; Ling [Lota maculosa LeSueur). Gadiis maiii/osiis , Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Fhila., I, 83, 1817, Lake Erie. Gadiis laciistris MncHiLU, Am. Month. Mag., II, 244, February, 1818. Lota inoniata , N. Y. Fauna, Fish., 283, \>\. 45, fig. 145, 1842, Hudson River. Lota compressa DeKay, op. cit. 285, pi. 78, figs. 244, 245, 1842. Lota maculosa DeKay, op. cit. 284, pi. 52, fig. 168, 1842; & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., , 1883; Meek, Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci., IV, 315, 1888, Cayuga Lake; Bean, Fishes Ienna., 138, pi. 35, fig. 75, 1893; Evermanx & Kendall,Rept. U. S. I. C, 1894, 603, 1896; Bean, Bull. .\vc\. Mus. Nat. Hist., L\, 372, 1897,Canandaigua Lake; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, 7550,1898; IV, pi. CCCLXIV, fig. 897, 1900. The color is dark olivaceous, reticulated with blackish ; the lower parts yellowishor dusky ; the dorsal, anal and caudal fins with a narrow dark The American Burbot was first described by LeSueur from Lake Erie in 1817,and also from Northampton, Conn., under a different name. This commom fish hasreceived a great many names, including the following: Marthy, Methy, Losh,Eelpout, Dogfish. Chub Eel, Ling, Lawyer, Lake Cusk, Fresh-water Cod, AlebyTrout and Mothcr-of-Flels. The southern limit of this fish appears to be Kansas City, Mo.; according toProf. Cope, it has been once taken in the Susquehanna near Muncy, LycomingCounty; it is extreme!)- common in the Great Lakes; westward it ranges to Mon-tana and northward throughout British Columbia and Alaska to the Arctic Ocean ;it is iiKist abundant in the Great Lakes and lakes of New York, New England andNew Brunswick; it abounds also in rivers and lakes of .Alaska. The Burbot was sent from Canandaigua Lake by .Mr. James .Annin, Jr., inNovember, 1897. It is hard to transport and still harder to keep alive in capti\ especially liable to attacks of f
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