FISHES OF NFW YORK 147 



In New York Mitcliill had it from the Wallkill; Eafinesque 

 from the Hudson above the falls. De Kay knew it from the 

 Mohawk and some of its tributaries including the Chittenonda. 

 Dr Meek found it ver;^^ common throughout the entire Cayuga 

 lake basin. Evermann and Bean collected it in the Saranac 

 river, Plattsburg, July 28, and in Scioto creek, Coopersville, 

 July 19, 1894. They secured it also in the St Lawrence river, 

 3 miles below Ogdensburg, July 17, 1894. The U. S. Fish Commis- 

 sion field parties found it very common in the Lake Ontario 

 basin 1892 to 1894, specimens having been recorded from: Sacket 

 Harbor, Charlotte, Huntingtonville, Henderson Harbor, Cape 

 Vincent, Pulaski, Oswego, Pultneyville, Pointbreeze, Webster, 

 Belleville, Scriba Corners, Wart creek, North Hamlin and Salt 

 brook. 



The redfin runs into small brooks and is most abundant in 

 eddies and other quiet parts of the streams. It has no value 

 except as food and bait for larger fishes, specially the black bass 

 and pike perch. The flesh is very soft and decays rapidly after 



death. 



87 Notropis cornutus frontalis (Agassiz) 



Leuciscus frontalis Agassiz, Lake Superior, 368, pi. 3, fig. 4, 1850, or Hyp- 



solepis frontalis fide Gujstther. 

 Eypsiicpis cornntus gibhns Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 158, 1867. 

 Minnilus cornutus var. frontalis Jordan &, Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. 



Mus. 187, 1883. 

 Nofropis megalops frontalis Meek, Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci. IV, 307, 1888. 

 Notropis cornvtus frontalis Jordan tfc Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



283, 1896. 



Very close to the typical cornutus, differing in its very 

 heavy head and in the smaller number of scales (13 to 18) in 

 advance of the dorsal. Great lakes; everywhere common in 

 mouths of brooks. Dr Meek found it scarce near Ithaca and 

 common near Montezuma N. Y. 



Subgenus notropis 

 88 Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque 



Emerald Minnmo; Rosy Miniiow 



'Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, Amer. Monlb. Mag. II, 204, Jan. 1818. 

 ' Alburnus rubellus Agassiz, Lake Superior, 364, pi. 3, figs. 1-3, 1850. 

 Leuciscus rubellus Gunther, Gat. Fish. Brit Mus. VII, 254, 1868, 



