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The silverfin ranges from western New York to Virginia and 

 west to Minnesota and Arkansas. It is a common and variable 

 species. It reaches a length of 4 inches. In Pennsylvania it 

 occurs in all the rivers and creeks, but according to Prof. Cope 

 is least common in tributaries of the Delaware. 



According to Dr Meek it is common on flats near Fall creek 

 and in the southern end of Cayuga lake. Evermann and Bean 

 took it in Scioto creek, Coopersville N. Y. in July 1894. In the 

 Lake Ontario region the U. S. Fish Commission secured the 

 following specimens: 



Orenadier island 



Horse island, Sacketts Harbor 



Cape Vincent 



Mill creek, Sacket Harbor 



Cemetery creek and Black river, Watertown 



Chaumont river 



Great Sodus bay 



Creek near Pultneyville' 



Specimens were obtained also by Livingston Stone §Lt Cape 

 Vincent Aug. 9, 1898, and presented to the State Museum. 



Subgenus luxilus Eaflnesque 



86 Notropis cornutus (Mitchill) 

 Shiner J Redfin 



Cyprinns cornutus Mitchill, Amer. Month. Mag. I, 289, July, 1817. 



(meager preliminary notice); op. cit. II, 324, Feb. 1818. (Wallkill river, 



N. Y.) 

 Cupriniis megalops Rafinesque, Amer. Month. Mag. II, 121, Dec. 1817. 



(Hudson river, above the falls) 

 Leucisciis vittatus De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 212, pi, 34, fig. 108, 1842. 



(Chittenonda and other tributaries of the Mohawk; also in Mohawk) 

 Hj/psilepis cornutus Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 158, 1867. 

 Leuciscus cornutus De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 207, pi. 29, fig. 92, 1842; 



GuNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. A'll, 249, 1868. 

 Minnilus cornutus Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 186, 1883. 

 Minnilus plumbeolus Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 192, 



1883. 

 Notropis megalops Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. A. 26, 1885; Bean, Fi^^hes Penna. 



40, 1893. 

 Notropis cornutus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 281, 1896. 



