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The American Ans'ler 



Mississippi and the Great Lakes. It 

 has a long head, the lower jaw project- 

 ing very much, with a small knob on 

 the tip of the chin, the upper lip being 

 on a level with the pupil of the eye ; it 

 is dark bluish above, and the belly more 

 or less silvery , scales slightly mottled, 

 and on the sides will be found broad, 

 black bands, which become bright crim- 

 son anteriorly in breeding males. The 

 second of these species is the leather- 

 sided minnow, L. hydrophlox, which is 

 very abundant in some sections of the Salt 

 Lake Basin, and in Snake River basin 

 above Shoshone Falls. Its coloration is 

 greenish, silvery, dusky on back, with 



(To be 



a blackish lateraljband]between two sil- 

 very stripes. 



There are a great number of other 

 and smaller species of cyprinoids liv- 

 ing in the waters west of the Rocky 

 Mountains, of which descriptions are 

 not given, as they are neither food 

 nor rod-fish. The angler living east 

 of that section will, however, meet with 

 several of this family of fishes other 

 than those already described, which, in 

 the absence of the trouts and black bass- 

 es of the fresh waters, will serve to make 

 an outing pass with enjoyment. Brief 

 description will now be give of those 

 most frequently taken on hook and line 



continued.) 



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