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18. Stone Cat (Noturus flavus Rafinesque). 



Noturus flavus JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 100, 1883; BEAN, Fishes 

 Penna., 18, 1893; JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 144, 1896, pi. 

 2 7, fig- 63, 1900. 



The Stone Cat is found from Ontario, throughout the Great Lakes region, south 

 to Virginia and Texas, west to Montana and Wyoming. It inhabits the larger 

 streams. Dr. Evermann obtained two specimens at Nine Mile Point, in the Lake 

 Ontario region, June 11, 1893. 



The species has very little value as food on account of its small size. It seldom 

 exceeds 12 inches in length, but it is a very good bait for Black Bass. The Stone 

 Cats are much dreaded by fishermen because of the painful wounds sometimes 

 produced by their pectoral spines. There is a minute pore in the axil of the 

 pectoral, which is the outlet of a noxious liquid secreted by a poison gland. When 

 this poison is discharged into a wound, it causes an extremely painful sore. 



STONE CAT. 



19. Lake Carp (Carpiodes thonipsoni Agassiz.) 



[878 ; JORDAN & GILBERT, 

 Abundant in the Great Lakes region. Found in Lake Champlain. 



Carpiodes thompsoni JORDAN, Bull. 12, U. S. Nat. Mus. i< 

 Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 119, 1883. 



20. Long-nosed Sucker (Catostomus catostomus Forster). 



Catostomits longirostris JORDAN, Bull. 12, U. S. Nat. Mus. 175, 187 



BERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 126, 1883. 

 Catostomus catostomus, BEAN, Fishes Penna., 25, pi. 20, fig. 30, 1893. 



; JORDAN & GIL- 



The Northern Sucker, Long-nosed Sucker, or Red-sided Sucker, as the above 

 species is styled, occurs in the Great Lakes and northwest to Alaska in clear, cold 

 waters. It is very common in Lake Erie. It grows to a length of 2 feet and is 



