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16. Marbled Cat (Ainciunts iicbu/osus uiartnoratus Holbrook). 



Amiurus maniwratus JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 104, 1883. 

 Ameiurus nebulosus marmoratus JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 141, 

 1896. 



Body moderately elongate, its depth about one-fourth total length to caudal 

 base ; slope of profile very steep ; jaws equal or subequal ; dorsal fin high, its spine 

 more than one-half as long as head, and nearer to adipose fin than to tip of snout ; 

 head long, three and one-fourth times in total length to caudal base; barbels long; 

 anal rays 21 ; body much mottled with brown, greenish and whitish. Lowland 

 streams and swamps from New York to Southern Indiana and Florida. The type of 

 the marmoratus of Holbrook was from South Carolina. 



17. Black Bullhead (Ameiurus melas Rafinesque). 





 Pimelodus pullus DEK.AY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 184, pi. 37, fig. 117, 1842. 



Amiurus pullus BEAN, Fishes Penna., 16, 1893. 



The Black Bullhead reaches the length of I foot. It is found in the Great Lakes 

 region and in the Mississippi Valley, westward to Kansas and southward to Texas. 



This species was known to DeKay as the Brown Catfish. His specimens were 

 taken from Lake Pleasant and Lake Janet, N. Y., and he states that it is also very 

 common in many other lakes of Northern New York, where its principal use is to 

 serve as bait for the lake trout. Dr. Jordan had it from the Genesee River. Dr. 

 Evermann obtained a specimen in Mill Creek, at Sacket Harbor, N. Y., July 2, 1894, 

 and doubtfully referred to this species a young individual collected in Sandy Creek, 

 at North Hamlin, N. Y., August 20, 1894. 



