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Hudson River. The U. S. Fish Commission has it from the following New York 

 localities in the Lake Ontario basin : Mouth Salmon River, Selkirk ; Big Sandy 

 Creek, Belleville ; Wart Creek, Buena Vista ; Little Stony Creek, Henderson Bay ; 

 Big Stony Creek, Henderson Harbor ; Spring Brook, Pulaski ; Black River, 

 Huntingtonville. 



All of these were obtained in July, 1894. Evermann and Bean collected it also 

 in the St. Lawrence, 3 miles below Ogdensburg, July 17, 1894, and Scioto Creek, 

 Coopersville and Saranac River, Plattsburg, July 19, 1894. 



Dr. Meek found it in small numbers in Six Mile Creek and Fall Creek, below the 

 falls. It inhabits clear running water. 



The fish grows to the length of 6 inches and may be at once distinguished from 

 all of the other minnows by its three-lobed lower jaw. It is believed that this 



GOLDFISH. 



singular structure of the mouth enables the fish to scrape mollusks from their hold 

 on rocks, as its stomach usually contains small shellfish. It takes the hook readily. 



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 34. Goldfish (Carassiits auratus Linnaeus). 



Cyprinus auratus DEK.AY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 190, 1842. 



Carassius auratus JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 253, 1883 ; BEAN, 

 Fishes Penna., 54, pi. 25, fig. 43, 1893. 



The common Goldfish or Silverfish is a native of Asia, whence it was introduced 

 into Europe and from there into America, where it is now one of the commonest 

 aquarium fishes and is extremely abundant in many of our streams. In Pennsyl- 

 vania it abounds in the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. 

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