124 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



1881. HiNCKELMANN, Herr [Fishmaster at Flensbiu^g], Beitrag zur 

 Naturgescliichte des Aals. <Circiilar, Deiitscher Fischerei- 

 Yereiu, i, 1881, Jan. 31, pp. 18-19. 



["A contribution to the natural history of the eel." Notes on the periods 

 of greatest abundance of eels about Flensbm-g and on the Danish coast. 

 Hinckelmann speaks of the size of the eels at different seasons, and of the 

 influence of the weather upon their capture. He confirms the view that 

 eels migrate in the fall from south to north, or from brackish toward salt 

 water, stating that the earliest catches are made at the south, the latest in 

 the most northern localities. ] 



1881. Decker, Herr [Fishmaster of Altona]. Zur Naturgeschichte 

 der Aale. <Deutsclie Fisclierei-Zeitung, 1881, May 24, pp. 

 165-16G. 



[An interesting communication, claiming that eels spawn and are hatched 

 on muddy and slimy bottoms at a depth of ten to fifteen feet.] 



A lilST OF OHIO RIVER FISHES .SOr.l> IIV THF MARKETS. 

 By ORLAIVDO HOBBS. 



Jeffersonville, Ind., March 20, 1881. 

 Prof. Spencer F. Baird, 



Secretary Smithsonian Institution : ' 



Dear Sir : Mr. Luke, the postmaster at this place, called on me to 

 furnish a list of the fish caught at the Falls of the Ohio. I was very un- 

 well at the time, and too much occupied with business affairs to attend 

 to it at that time. I have since, by going to the fishing grounds, see- 

 ing the lines run and the captures by the nets, been enabled to make 

 the following list, that comprises about all the fish caught here. I 

 also send with this a list written and furnished by William Taylor & 

 Co., who have fished here and supplied the market for the last forty 

 years. They claim it is a full list, and it agrees with that I have col- 

 lected from every other source of information. Should there be any- 

 thing you wish information of at this locality, and will send directions 

 for properly obtaining the same, it will give me jileasure to attend to it 

 for you. 



I have the honor to remain, very respectfully, yours, 



OELANDO HOBBS. 



LIST OF FISH CAUGHT AT FALLS OF OHIO. 



Stizostethium vitreum var. salmonemn (Raf.), Jor. & Copeland. — White 

 Salmon. 



Stizostethium vitreum (Mitch.), Jor. & Copeland. — Black Salmon. 



Percopsis (juttatus, Ag. — Trout Perch. 



Ferca fluviatilis, Linn. — Yellow Perch. 



Pomoxys annularis^ Raf. — White Perch, Bachelor Perch. 



Buhalichthys urus, Ag. — Black Buffalo. 



