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bv fallen timber-. The water is always more or less muddy, except in the fall, 

 when very low, it approaches clearness. The river was fished for three-quarter& 

 of a mile where Hunley Creek empties into it. The water was very low and the 

 fish were mostly collected in the deeper places in the channel. The ripples were 

 repeatedly seined, but were found to be poor in fish. These places seemed ideal 

 for darters, but not a single one was taken here. All that were caught were 

 living together and had collected in the apparently stagnant holes. 



Short Creek is a narrow muddy stream about seven miles in length, emptying 

 into Hunley Creek three miles above its mouth. During dry seasons it dries up 

 at many places and presents only pools of yellow, muddy, stagnant water. It was 

 in some of these pools from its mouth to about a mile above that our fishing was 

 done. 



Patoka River will be indicated l)y ( /') in the descriptions, and Short Creek 

 by (S). 



All of this collection is in the Indiana University Museum. 



The common names given are those by which they are known in this locality: 



1. Ictaiur m piinctalus Jiafinesqae. Channel cat. (P.) Two specimens. 



2. Amimi us melas B.i\fLneiique. Black cat. (P.) One specimen. 



3. Leptops olimris B.-dfinesqiie. Flat-head. Mud cat. (P.) One specimen. 



4. Schilbeodes m in rus Jordan . (P.) Sixteen specimens. 



5. MoroMoma aureolum Le f-ueur. Eed hoi'se. White sucker. Four 

 specimens from Short Creek and fourteen from the Patoka River. 



6. Hyhoynathus nuchuhs Agassiz. Thirty-seven s[)ecimens from Short Creek 

 and fifty-nine from Patoka River. 



7. Pincephales iiotatus Rafinesque. ( P. ) Seven specimens. 



8. Cliola vigilax Baird & Girard. (P.) Many specimens. 



9. yotropis microstinnus Rafinesque. (P.) Nineteen specimens. 



10. Notropis whippiei Girard. (P.) Sixty specimens. 



11. Notropix nroens Cope. (P.) Twenty specimens. 



12. yotropis inn bratilis Girard. (S. ) Fifty-eight specimens. 



13. Notrojns atherinoides ^a^nesque. (P.) Thirty-eight specimens. 



14. Opsopoeodiis emiliae Hay. (S.) Two specimens. 



15. yotemigoneus chrysaleneus Mitchell. Golden shiner. (S. ) Five specimens. 



16. Dorosoma cepedianum Le Sueur. Mud shad. Hickory shad. (P.) One 

 specimen. 



17. Tiigoneetes notatu" ^&^v\ei,(\\ie. Top minnow. (P. S. ) Sixty-(ine speci- 

 mens from Patoka River and five from Short Creek. 



18. Lucitts veniiiculal IIS he Sueur. Pike. Pickerel, i P. ) Four specimens. 



