156 Lhe American Angler. 
fully supplied with the Eastern form of 
this species, where it is esteemed as a 
food fish. 
The golden sucker or lake red horse 
Monostoma auecreolum (specific name 
from the Latin ‘‘gilded”)—has a 
shorter and smaller head, and a small- 
er mouth than J7, macrolepidotum, and 
the snout does not protrude over 
the mouth as in the latter fish, to the 
color of which it closely assimilates, 
the tail and lower fins being always 
red; the tail is forked, and the scales 
finely marked with thread-like lines 
or grooves of color. The rays of the 
dorsal are thirteen to fifteen, and those 
of the anal fin are usually eight in 
number. It is sometimes called lake 
mullet, and grows to the length of 
eighteen inches. It is a native of the 
Great Lakes and northward, and is also 
found in the Ohio valley. 
Another species of the red horses is 
found in the Ohio river, thence south 
to and including North Carolina; it is 
the long-tailed red horse—J/oxostoma 
crassilabre (specific name from the 
Latin crassus, ‘‘thick,” and /abrum, 
‘‘lip”’). It is said to have the form of 
the whitefish, ‘‘deep compressed body, 
small head, sharply conic snout, which 
overhangs the very small mouth.’”’ The 
lobes of the tail fin are unequal, the 
upper being always longest, and the 
anal fin is long, narrow and curved like 
a scythe, the posterior end of it reach- 
ing beyond the front of the caudal fin, 
which is of a bright red color, as is 
also the dorsal fin, which has eleven to 
fourteen rays, the anal fin having 
seven. Dr. Bean states that this is a 
handsome fish, the sides being silvery 
with copper reflections. The dorsal 
fin is high, the longest rays being about 
one and one-half times the base of the 
fin. 

Dr. David S. Jordan describes 
another species of the red horses— 
Moxostoma cervinum (specific name 
from the Latin—‘‘ tawny like a deer ’’) 
—under the common names of jump- 
rocks and jumping mullet. The pro- 
fessor states that it has arather pointed, 
but very short, head; the mouth rather 
large and the lips strongly plicate or 
folded; eyes and fins small; color, 
greenish brown with a pale blotch on 
each scale, thus forming continuous 
streaks; upon the back are brownish 
blotches and the fins are brownish in 
color. ‘There are eleven rays in the 
dorsal and forty-four scales along the 
lateral line. This fish is found from 
Virginia to Georgia, and is not rare. 
There are at least eight additional spe- 
cies of the J/oxostomz, or red hcerses, gen- 
erally called mullets locally, the habitat 
of which is confined to Southern waters. 
I wiil briefly refer to these, with ac- 
knowledgment of dependence upon the 
text books, for I confess, not shame- 
facedly, that I am in ignorance of the 
life histories of this brood of fishes. 
In waters located in South Carolina, 
and thence to Georgia, we find J7/. pop- 
ellosum with a stout body, an elevated 
back, big eye, set well back and up, 
top of head flat, thick lips and deeply 
incised. It has twelve to fourteen rays 
in the dorsal fin and forty-two scales - 
along the wateral line. -The colores 
silvery, with smoky shadings on the 
back and white on the lower fins. 
In the upper Mississippi valley, 
thence to Georgia and southward, will 
be found J/7. velatum, a sucker of large 
size, with a short head, flattish and 
broad .on. the top. ~The muzzle; or 
snout, is very prominent and bluntish, 
overhanging a very small mouth. The 
fins are very large, the dorsal being 
long and high, and the pectorals nearly 
