82 VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF THE UNITED STATES 



dusky spot at the base of the tail fin; upper part of the head metaUic 

 green; belly in males red; scales 6-39-3: Santee basin; common in 

 mountain streams. 



N. liitipinnis (Jordan & Bray ton). Length 75 mm.; head 4; depth 

 4.25; color olive, with intense green lines and a metallic blackish lateral 

 band; head and fins bright yellow; males red; scales 7-40-3: South 

 Carolina and Georgia; in pine woods. 



N. chiiiticus (Cope). Length 50 mm.; head 4; depth 5.5; color 

 olivaceous, with a silvery lateral band; dorsal and anal fins each with a 

 vermilion band; a dark caudal spot; scales 7-36-2: basin of the Great 

 Pedee River; common in upland streams. 



N. aUipinnis (Cope). Length 60 mm.; head 4.3; depth 3.5; color 

 greenish, with a silvery lateral band and a black band across the eye and 

 snout; lower jaw blackish; rays of anal fin 9; scales 5-36-2: basin of the 

 Great Pedee and Cape Fear Rivers; in pine woods; common. 



N. roseus (Jord.). Length 60 mm.; head 4.3; depth 4.5; color oliva- 

 ceous, with a dark lateral line; fins red in male; top of head red; rays of 

 anal fin always 7; scales 5-38-5; body short and stout; a dark caudal 

 spot: lowland streams of the Gulf States from the Ogeechee to the 

 Mississippi; common. 



A'^. chalyh(Bus (Cope). Length 50 mm. ; head 3.8; depth 5; color dark, 

 with a broad lateral band; belly straw color, orange in spring males; a 

 small dark caudal spot; scales 6-33-3; body slender; mouth very oblique: 

 Ogeechee River to the Delaware, in coastal streams and swamps; scarce. 



xV. chrosomus (Jord.) ; Length 60 mm. ; head 4.3 ; depth 5 ; color green- 

 ish; belly silvery; a scarlet bar across the dorsal, anal and the base of 

 the caudal fins; a narrow scarlet lateral band; a small black spot at base 

 of tail fin; scales 5-37-3 : Alabama basin; very common. 



N. xanocephalus (Jord.). Length 70 mm.; head 4.2; depth 5; color 

 dark olivaceous, with a dark band along the sides of the caudal peduncle 

 and the head and a dusky blotch at the base of the tail fin; males with- 

 out red; rays of anal fin 7; scales 5-38-3 : Georgia to Mississippi; common 

 in pine woods; descending to the sea. 



N. ariommus (Cope). Length 125 mm.; head 3.75; depth 

 4.25; color olivaceous; rays of anal fin 9; scales 6-39-2; eyes 

 very large: basin of the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers; common 

 about Indianapolis. 



N. jejunus (Forbes). Length 75 mm.; head 4; depth 4.6; color 

 pale, with a broad silvery lateral band; rays of anal fin 7; scales 5-37-3; 

 teeth 2, 4-4, I : western Pennsylvania to Kansas; southward to Tennessee 

 northward to Winnipeg; not rare. 



