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AVhere Fishes Spend the Winter. 



As winter approaches and the leaves fall and the ground becomes 

 frozen, tlie birds leave ns and go farther sontli into warmer climates 

 wliere food is more abundant. AYe are all fann'Har with tlii.s hal)it 

 of the l)ird8, but how many of us know or have even wondered 

 what the fishes have been doing through the cold winter months 

 while the streams and ponds have been covered with ice ? Before 

 the warmch of spring comes to raise the temperature of the streams, 



105. — 1, Shiner ; 2, Barred KiUifish ; 3, Black-nosed Dace ; 4, Creek Chub; 

 5, Young of Laiyje-mouthed Black Bass ; 6, Varying'toothed 

 Minnow. 



let US go to some familiar place in a brook where, during the sum- 

 mer, are to be found scores of minnows. Xone are to be found 

 now. The brook sliows no sierns of ever liavino; contained anv liv- 

 ing creatures. Suppose we go fartlier up or down the stream until 

 we find a protected pool the bottom of which is covered with sedi- 

 ment and water-soaked leaves. With our net we will dip up some 



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