68 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



Habitat: Very abundant in lakes and lowland streams. 



Season in R. I.: Reported from Larkins Pond, Queens River, and ponds 



and streams in North and South Kingstown. 

 Food: Crustacea, insect larvae and aquatic plants. 

 Size: About ten inches. 



CYPRINID.^. The Carps. 

 28. Abraniis crysoleucas (Mitchill). Golden Shiner; Roach; Dace. 

 Geog. Dist.: Nova Scotia and Maryland to Dakota and Texas. 

 Season in R. I.: Reported from Benedicts, Mashapaug, Dyers, Cunliff, 



Sucker, Herring, Larkins, and Belleville Ponds, Queens and Pawtucket 



Rivers. 

 Habitat: Fresh water. Sluggish species, frequently found in ponds and 



cutoffs, preferring those where the bottom is covered with aquatic plants. 



(Gill, Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 48, 1907, 307.) 

 Reproduction: , Spawns in May. The young reach H inches long in 



December. (Bean, 1901.) 

 Size: Adult is from 6 inches to a foot long. 



39. Notropis cornutus (Mitchill). Shiner; Red- fin. 



Geog. Dist.: Entire region east of Rocky Mountains, except South Atlan- 

 tic States and Texas. Common throughout New England. 



Season in R. I.: Reported by R. I. Fish Commission, 1899. Probably 

 present throughout the State; reported from Belleville and Larkins 

 Ponds, Queens and Ten Mile Rivers. 



Habitat: Small streams. 



Reproduction: Spawns in spring and early summer; eggs are deposited 

 in a hollow made in a gravelly shoal where the current is swift. (Ken- 

 dall, 1908; Gill, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 48, 1907, 301.) 



Food: Carnivorous, feeding on all small aquatic animals and insects. 



Size: Five to eight inches. 



30. Rhinichthys atronasus (Mitchill). Black-nosed Dace. 



Geog. Dist.: New England to Minnesota, Northern Alabama, and ^"ir- 



ginia. Common throughout New England. 

 Habitat: Fresh water. Abundant in clear brooks and mountain streams. 

 Season in R. I. : Probably present throughout streams of the northern and 



western parts of the State. (R. I. Fish Com., 1899.) 

 Reproduction: Spawns in spring and early summer. (Gill, Smithsonian 



Misc. Coll., 48, 1907, 308; Holder, Harper's New Monthly Mag., Dec. 



1883, 100; Gregg. Amer. Nat. XIII, 1879, 321.) 



