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Salt brook, 1^ miles above Nine Mile point June 10-11, 1893 



Cape Vincent June 21, 1894 



Grenadier island June 27, 1894 



Horse island, Sacketts Harbor June 30, 1894 



Mouth Salmon river, Selkirk July 25, 1894 



Three Mile creek, Oswego July 27, 1894 



Great Sodus bay Aug. 6, 1894 



Long pond, Charlotte Aug. 17, 1894 



Lake shore, mouth Long pond Aug. 17, 1894 



Nine Mile point, Webster Aug. 23, 1894 



East end Lake Ontario 1894 



Livingston Stone also collected the species at Cape Vincent 

 Aug. 9, 1898. 



In the Lake Champlain basin Evermann and Bean obtained it 

 at Scioto creek, Coopersville, and Rouse Point July 19, 1894. 



The spawn-eater reaches the length of 10 inches. Its teeth 

 are usually four in the principal row and two in the inner. Its 

 spawn-eating habits are not verified. 



84 Notropis hudsonius amarus (Girard) 



Gudgeon 



Huclsotmts amarus GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 210, 1856. (Chesa- 

 peake Bay; Potomac river at Washington) 



Hybopsis storcrianus COPE, Cypr. Penna. 386, 1866. 



Leucisciis storcrianus GTTNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. VII, 250, 1868; KIRT- 

 LAND, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. V, 30, pi. IX, fig. 2, 1847. 



Cliola storcriana JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 170, 1883. 



Notropis amarus BEAN, Fishes Penna. 30, pi. 23, fig. 37, 1893. 



Notropis Into" nonius amarus JORDAN, Cat. Fish. N. A. 24, 1885; JORDAN & 

 EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 270, 1896. 



The gudgeon has a moderately elongate and compressed body 

 and a slender caudal peduncle. The greatest depth equals one 

 fourth of the total length to base of caudal, and the least depth 

 of the peduncle equals the length of the postorbital part of head. 

 The head is rather short with an obtuse short snout: the length 

 of the head is nearly one fourth of the total to b.ase of caudal. 

 The snout is one fourth and the eye one third as long as the 

 head. The maxilla extends to the vertical through the front of 



