Storer's Synopsis of the Fishes of JYorlh America. 1 G 1 



tions. Head bluish on the top ; gill-covers silvery, with cupreous and flesh-colored tints, 

 and edged with a brown, membranous prolongation. Scales large, transparent, rounded at 

 their summit, truncated at their base, striated ; at the base of each scale is a fleshy, dark- 

 colored membrane, which, projecting as far as the apex of the preceding scale, gives the ap- 

 pearance of indistinct oblique bands across the fish. The lateral line contains fifty-one scales ; 

 nine scales in an oblique line above the lateral line, and six below it. Dorsal nearly as high 

 again as long. Anal higher than long. 



D. 10. P. 17. V. 8. A;'l0. C. 22. Length, 6 to 11 inches. 



Massachusetts, Storer. New York, Valenciennes. 



Leuciscus pulchellus, Beautiful Leuciscus, Storer's Report, p 91. 



" " Roach Dace, Dekay's Report, p. 208. 



Leuciscus argenleus, Silvery Leuciscus, Storer's Report, p. 90. 



" " Silvery Dace, Dekay's Report, p. 212. 



Cyprinus corporalis ? Corporal? Mitchill, Amer. Month. Mag., vn. p. 324. 

 Leuciscus? corporally, O»rporaalen, Dekay's Report, p. 213. 

 L'Able gentil (Leuciscus pulchellus, Storer), Cov. el Yal., xvii. p. 320. 

 L'Able de Slorer (Leuciscus Sloreri, Val.), Cttv. et Vai., xvn p. 319, pi. 505. 



19. Leuciscus biguttatus, Kirtland. 



Olive and bluish above the medial line ; sides and abdomen faintly cupreous. Fins orange, 

 tinged with ferruginous ; a black spot at the base of the caudal fin. Body and fins irregularly 

 punctated with small black dots, and a large vermilion dot behind each eye. The older in- 

 dividuals, especially the males, have the upper surface of the head and upper jaw studded 

 with numerous spines in the spring of the year. 



D. (?)■ P- (.')• V. (?) A. (?)■ C. (•). Length, 6 inches. 



Ohio, Kirtland. 



Vulgar name, the " Jerker." 



Semotilus biguttatus, Two spoiled Chub, Kirtland, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., ill. p. 314, pi. 5, fig. 1. 

 Leuciscus biguttatus, Dekay's Report, p. 211. 



20. Leuciscus elongatus, Kirtland. 



Back a beautiful sky-blue, edged below with a gilt band ; below this is an interrupted 

 black band, extending from the point of the upper jaw to the tail, passing through the iris 

 of the eye, but broken by a carmine, or, in others, a vermilion stripe terminating above the 

 end of the ventrals. Sides and belly silvery. Body elongated, slim. Dorsal high ; caudal 

 deeply forked. 



D. 8. P. (.'). V. (?). A. 9. C. 20. Length, 3 inches. 



Tributaries of Lake Erie, near Cleveland, and of the Mahoning River, Trumbull county, 

 Ohio, Kirtland. 



I.uxilus elongatus, Red-bellied Shiner of the Lake, Kiriland's Report, pp ]C,9, Il>3. 



" ■' " Kirtland, Boat. Journ. Not. Hist., m.p. 339, pi. 4, fig. 1. 



Leuciscus elongatus, Dekay's Report, p. 211, 



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