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following ponds: Roger Williams Park, Print Works, Spectacle, Dyers, 

 Randall, Kings, Georgiaville, Olney, Scotts, Herring, Round, W'allum, 

 Sucker, Bowdish, Keech, Moswansicut, Wordens, Hundred Acre, Thirty 

 Acre, and Yawgoo; and from the following reservoirs: Slack, Sprague, 

 Waterman, Wilson, Burlingame, Poneganset, Smith and Sayles, and 

 from Silver Lake. 



Repkoduction: Spawns in April and May, eggs ^-inch in diameter and 

 are adhesive; they are deposited in shallow water and guarded by the 

 parents. 



Food: Feeds on all kinds of animal life, including young and ova of 

 other fishes. (Kendall, Bull. U. S. Fish Com. 1902, 404.) Apparently 

 feeds largely at night. 



References : 



1883 

 1890 

 1901 

 1902 

 1902 

 1903 



Ryder, Bull. U. S. Fish Com. III., 225. 



Dean, Report State Fish Com. N. Y, 19. 



Eycleshymer, Amer. Nat. XXXV, 911. 



Kendall, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., XXII., 401. 



Smith and Harron, Bull. U. S. Fish Com. XXII, 151. 



Smith, Science, February 13th, 243. 



CATOSTOMIDtE. The Suckers. 



36. Catostomus coinmersonli (Lacepede). Common Sucker; Brook Sucker . 

 Geog. Dist.: Quebec and the Great Lakes to Montana, Colorado, Missouri, 



and Georgia. Abundant in ponds and streams of Maine, New Hamp- 

 shire, Vermont and Massachusetts. (Kendall, 1908.) In Connecticut, 

 mentioned by De Kay (1842), and by Linsley (1844). 



Season IN R. I.: Probably common in R. I. Recorded from Larkins and 

 Mashapaug Pond, Sucker Brook, Queens, Pawcatuck, and Moosup 

 Rivers. 



Reproduction: Spawns in shallow, swift water, in May and June. 



Habitat: Fresh water streams and ponds. 



Food: Insects, worms, molluscs, young fishes, and fish ova. The young 

 feed on diatoms, desmids, and black fly larvse. (Kendall and Golds- 

 borough, Bureau of Fisheries Doc. 633, 1908, p. 24). 



Size: Maximum, 22 inches. 



37. Erimyzon sucetta oblongus. 



Geog. Dist.: Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley, eastward. Common in 

 Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts. Reported from 

 Connecticut at "Housatonic." (Kingsley, 1844.) 



