PROCEEDINaS 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 



1886. . 



LIST OF FISHES COLLECTED IN ARKANSAS, INDIAN TERRITORY, 

 AND TEXAS, IN SEPTEMBER, 1884, WITH NOTES AND DESCRIP- 

 TIONS. 



ny DAVID !^. JOKDAIV and 11IIARr>C:!<i II. Oir.KERT. 



During tbc moiitlis of Jul}', August, and September, 1884, a series of 

 explorations of the streams of the South and Southwest was uudertakeu 

 under the direction of the U. S. National Museum and the U. S. Fisli 

 Commission by the Avriters, assisted by Prof. Joseph Swain and by Mr. 

 Seth E. Meek. Tbe present paper is the second of the series inteuded 

 to place on record the results of these exploratious. The first of the 

 series, enumerating the collections of Jordan & Meek in Iowa and 

 Missouri, was published iu these Proceedings for 1885, pp. 1-17. 



In the present paper is the record of the collections made by the 

 writers working together iu the streams farther south. Tlie streams 

 examined were the AVhite Kiver (Arkansas), the Poteau Eiver and other 

 tributaries of the Arkansas, the Washita Kiver and its large tributary, 

 the Saline, the Eed River, the Sabine River, the Trinity River, the 

 Lampasas River, the Colorado River, the Rio San Marcos and the Rio 

 Comal. 



IMost of t lie specimens were taken with a fine-meshed seine of large 

 size. These specimens are now in the 17. S. National Museum, with the 

 exception of a series retained for the museums of the Indiana Univer- 

 sity and the Universilj- of Cincinnati. 



A. — AVniTE IIIVER, NEAR EUREKA gPRlNGr.S, ARKANSAS. 



The northwestern part of Arkansas is an extremely broken and rocky 

 region, although none of the hills are of any great height. The streams 

 of this region are fed by numerous springs. The waters are very clear, 

 and the bottoms are gravelly. The general character of the streams 

 resembles that of parts of East Tennessee, and the fish fauna is re- 

 markably similar to that of the Tennessee River. 



Proc. ^^ M. 80 1 A«is:-ei!^l a 4, 1886, 



