122 NEW YORK STATE MUSEiUM 



69 Semotilus bullaxis (Rafinesque) 



FwUfish; Wind Fish; Dace; CMvm; Silver CJmb 



Cui^rmits bullaris Rafinesque, Amer. Mouth. Mag. II, 120, Dec. 1S17. 

 Cyiprimts corporalis Mitchili,, Amer. Month. Mag. II, 324, Mar. 1818. 



Previous notice in same worlc, vol. I, 289, July, 1817, insufficient to 



hold name. The Corporaalen of the Dutch, moreover, was the striped 



species, atromacuhitits. 

 ■ Semotlh(S bvUaris Jokdan, Man. Vort. ed. 1, 1876; Jokdan & Gilbekt, 



Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 222, 1883; Bean, Fishes Penna. 50, pi. 24. fig. 



41, 1898; Goode, Fish. & Fish. Ind. U. S. pi. 228, upper figure, 1884. 

 Lcuciscus nlUdus DeKay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 209, pi. 33, fig. 105, 1842. 



Lake Champlain. 

 Leuciscus clirysopterm De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 211, pi. 30, fig. 95 



(poor), 1842, harbor of New York. 

 Smiotihis corporalis Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, IT. S. Nat. Mus. 221, 



1806. 



The fallfish has a moderately deep, elongate and compressed 

 body and a stout caudal peduncle. The greatest depth is one 

 fourth of the total length without caudal, and the least depth 

 of the peduncle equals three eighths of length of head. The 

 head is rather large, one fourth of total without caudal, with 

 pointed snout, which is two sevenths of the head's length. The 

 mouth is oblique; the jaws nearly equal, the maxilla extending 

 to below front of eye. The eye is placed high and is about one 

 fourth as long as the head. The dorsal origin is over the 16th 

 or 17th scale of the lateral line; the base of the tin is one half, 

 and the longest ray two thirds as long as the head. The ventral 

 origin is under the 15th scale of the lateral line; the tin does not 

 reach to the vent, its length one seventh of total without caudal. 

 The anal origin is under the 27th scale of the lateral line; the 

 base of the fin is one third as long as the head, and the longest 

 ray is as long as the ventral. The caudal is large and deeply 

 forked. The lateral line curves downward abruptly over the 

 pectoral, becoming median over the end of that fin. D. ii, 7; 

 A. ii, 7; V. 8; T. 18. Scales 7—46—5; teeth 2, 5—4, 2 or 2, 4— 

 4, 2, all more or less strongly hooked. In spirits the upper parts 

 are grayish brown, the sides and cheeks silvery, the lower parts 

 whitish, the fins all pale. In life the upper parts are steel blue, 

 the sides and belly silvery; breeding males in spring have the 



