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tinged with carmine in some specimens, and wholly of a 

 bright carmine in others. The colors of the female are less 

 vivid than those of the male, and the black stripes on the sides 

 are often displaced by a muddy dun color. 



C. 20 ; D. 8 ; P. 12 ; V. 8 ; A. 8. 



Habitat. All the small brooks and rivulets in the West. 



Observations. In my specimens, the anal fins were eight 

 rayed, though Rafinesque describes the species as having only 

 seven rays. 



The colors are the most vivid in the Spring of the year, 

 when great numbers may be seen congregating on the shoals 

 and ripples of every spring-run, preparing to deposit their 

 spawn. After that process has been completed, they cease to 

 be gregarious, lose their beautiful colors, and return to the 

 deeper waters. 



The thicker and more cylindrical form of the body, the 

 shortness of the head and jaws, and the different arrangement 

 of the colors, as well as its different habits, will readily dis- 

 tinguish it from the Luxilus elongatus. 



A hasty observer might mistake the male and female for 

 distinct species. I have therefore furnished a sketch of both 

 sexes. 



Fig. a. male. 



Fig. b. female. 



Lota. Cuvier. 

 L. maculosa. Le Sueur. The Eel-pout. 



Lota maculosa. Cuv. Griffith's Cuv. Vol. X. p. 487. 



" " Richardson. Fauna Boreali- Americana, p. 248. 



** " Kirtland. Report on the Zoology of Ohio. p. 196. 



Gadus maculdsus. Le Sueur. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Vol. I. p. 83. 



PI. III. Fig. 1. 



The following description, of Le Sueur, I extract from the 

 first volume of the '^ Journal of the Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ence, of Philadelphia." 



*' G. maculdsus. Jaws equal ; lower one with a single 



