McAtee and Weed — Fishes of Vicinity of Phimmers Island, Md. 3 



Alexandria, Holmes and Cameron Runs, which unite and flow 

 into the river just below that city, and Accotink Creek, emptying 

 five miles below. The distance between the mouths of the creeks 

 at the extremes of this system, measured along the river, is 24 

 miles. 



Scott's Run, the only one of this group in which we are 

 especially interested in the present connection, has a total length 

 of approximately 41 miles. It drops into the river over a 

 fall 25 feet above low water mark and within a half a mile from 

 its mouth has a total descent of about 100 feet. The mouth is 

 about li miles above Plummers Island. 



LIST OF FISHES. 

 Below the fall Above the fall 



Pimephales notatus Catostomus commersonii 



Notropis amoenus Semotilus atromaculatus 



analostanus Leuciscus vandoisulus 



hudsonius Rhinichthys atronasus 



Lepomis auritus " cataractae 



gibbosus Boleosoma olmstedi 



Micropterus dolomieu 



Boleosoma olmstedi 



Dead Run, Va. 



Dead Run has its source at Mackall Hill at an elevation of 

 300 feet, has a total length of about 2^ miles and empties into 

 the river about i mile below Plummers Island, The stream 

 falls about 120 feet in the last half mile of its course. 



LIST OF FISHES. 



Belovj falls Above falls 



Various river fishes occa- Semotilus atromaculatus 



sionally run in, as Rhinichthys atronasus 



catfishes, sunfishes, 

 and black bass. 



Turkey Run, Va. 



This stream heads near Langley, Va., at an elevation of 240 

 feet. Its total length is about li miles, and its descent in the 

 last half mile of its course is about 100 feet. 



