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Citations:okow

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English citations of okow

  • 1836, John Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Americana, part 3, The Fish (published in London), page 14:
    The Okow inhabits the rivers and lakes of the fur countries up to the fifty-eighth parallel, and is, in all probability, the same species with the L. Americana. [] The Okow spawns in May, soon after the ice breaks up.
  • 1836, Richard King, Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Arctic Ocean in 1833, 1834, and 1835, volume 1, pages 181-182:
    During my passage into the country I ascertained also another fact, [] as regards a doubt which has long existed, whether the perca fluviatilis, okow, or horn-fish of Richardson, is identical with the lucioperca Americana, or American sandre.