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largest and most abundant northward, in Alaska reaching a weight of 5 pounds. As 

 a food fish the Long-nosed Sucker is little esteemed ; but in cold countries the head 

 and roe are used in making a palatable soup. 



The males in the breeding season, in spring, are profusely covered with tubercles 

 on the head and fins and have a broad rosy band along the middle of the body. In 

 the Yukon River, Alaska, Dr. Ball found the fish filled with spawn in April. The 

 eggs are of moderate six.e and yellow in color. Nelson has seen this species seined 

 by Eskimo in brackish estuaries of streams flowing into Kotzebue Sound. W. J. 

 Fisher has collected specimens on the peninsula of Alaska. 



This was not found in Cayuga Lake basin by Dr. Meek, but it occurs in the 

 Adirondack region, and Dr. Meek believes it is a member of the Cayuga Lake fauna. 

 Dr. Evermann obtained five specimens at Grenadier Island, N. Y., June 28, 1894. 



The small race found by Fred Mather in the Adirondack's is the ordinary dwarf 

 form characteristic of mountain regions. He discovered four individuals, only 



LONG-NOSED SUCKER. 



inches long, "but mature and breeding" in a little mountain brook emptying into 

 Big Moose nearly north of the Big Moose Club House, by a bark shanty known as 

 " Pancake Hall." The fish were spawning, and he discovered many eggs under the 

 stones. The females were brown with white on belly, the male with red stripe on 

 the side. 



21. Common Sucker (Catostomus commersonii Lacepede). 



Catostomus feres BEAN, Fishes Penna., 25, 1893. 



Catostomus pallidus DEK.AY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 200, pi. 33, fig. 104, 1842. 

 Catostomus commersonii JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 178, 1896, 

 pi. 34, fig. 83, 1900. 



The Common Sucker is also known as the Pale Sucker, White Sucker, Gray 

 Sucker, Brook Sucker, and, among the Canadian French, as carpe blanche. It is the 

 commonest member of its genus in waters east of the Rocky Mountains. It is 



