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the lengtli of the head. The pectoral when extended reaches 

 to below the IGth scale of the lateral line. The caudal is mod- 

 erate in size and not very deeply forked, its middle rays being 

 about two thirds as long as the external rays. D. ii, 7; A. iii, 8; 

 Y. 8; P. 15. Scales 9—58—6. Teeth of right side 2 + 5; of left side 

 2 + 4. Tliose of the left side strongly and those of the right 

 side less strongly hooked. Teeth of the upper row with a well 

 developed grinding surface. 



The length of the specimen described, no. 216G1, U. S. National 

 Museum, from the Susquehanna river at Bainbridge Pa., is 4{ 

 inches. 



The color is bluish brown above; sides with a distinct dusky 

 band, not so wide as the eye and becoming obsolete in the adult. 

 Young specimens have the end of this band more pronounced, 

 forming a black spot at the base of the caudal. A small black 

 spot always present on the front of the base of the dorsal, its 

 size in the specimen described being about two thirds of that 

 of the eye. In life the belly is whitish. Breeding males have 

 the belly rose tinted and the black dorsal spot bordered with 

 red; thej have, also, rather large tubercles on the snout. 



The common chub, creek chub, smaller fallfish or horned dace 

 has a wider distribution than S. b u 1 1 a r i s , but it does not 

 grow quite so large, seldom exceeding 1 foot in length. Its 

 range extends from New England to Missouri, southward to 

 Georgia and Alabama. It is extremely common and ascends 

 the small streams. 



The U. S. Fish Commission collectors in 1894 took numerous 

 specimens at the following localities: Sacketts Harbor, July 2; 

 ('enterville, July 24; Watertown, July 5; Oswego, July 25; 

 Webster, Aug. 9; Charlotte, Aug. 17; Belleville, July 12; Hen- 

 derson bay, July 4; Henderson Harbor, July 3, and Salt brook, 

 H miles above Nine Mile point, June 10 and 11, 1893. 



Dr Meek reported it as abundant throughout the Cayuga lake 

 basin. Large examples are found in Canandaigua lake. One of 

 them measured 14 inches in July 1897. The fish is killed by 



