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This small minnow is fonnd in the Great lakes region, west- 

 ward to Dakota and south to Texas. The U. S. Fish Commission 

 collectors secured a moderate number of specimens in 1894 at 

 the following- localities. 



Cape Vincent June 23 



Grenadier island June 27 



Little Stony brook, Henderson bay July 4 



Big Sandy creek, Belleville July 12 



Mouth Salmon river, Selkirk July 25 



Great Sodus bay Aug. 6 



Dr B. W. Evermann and Barton A. Bean secured 12 examples 

 in Scioto creek, Coopersville N. Y. July 19, 1894. They also 

 took many specimens July 17 in the St Lawrence river, 3 miles 

 below Ogdensburg N. Y. Dr Evermann observed a diffuse plum- 

 beous band along the side, each scale in the lateral line punctate 

 with black, making the lateral line very conspicuous. In many 

 a very small black spot was present at base of caudal. The 

 dorsal was very low, only five ninths length of head. 



82 Notropis procne (Cope) 



Shiner 



Eijboffiiathiis procne CorE, Pi-oc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 279. 283, 1864. 

 Hijbopsis procne Cope, Cypr. Penna. 385, pi. XI, fig. 2, 18C6. 

 Lenciscus procne Gunthee, Cat. Fisb. Brit. Mus. YII, 260, 1868. 

 €llola procne Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 169, 1883. 

 Notropis procne Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. A. 23, 1885; Bean, Fishes Peuna. 

 37, 1893; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 264, 1896. 



This little minnow has a short, slender and compressed body 

 and a very slender caudal peduncle. The greatest depth, at the 

 dorsal origin equals the length of the head, which is about one 

 fourth of the total without caudal. In some described speci- 

 mens the head is contained four and three fourths times and 

 the depth of the body five and one fourth times in total length 

 without caudal. The snout is short and obtuse, shorter than 

 the eye, which is two fifths as long as the head. The mouth is 

 terminal and small, the maxilla not reaching to front of eye, 

 and the jaws equal. The lateral line Is gently curved down- 



