Fish and Fishing in America 
pointed, and resemble in appearance the 
teeth of some of the minnows rather 
than suckers. Recent collectors in 
Western streams have found thiscurious 
sucker to be a very common fish in 
numerous localities. It grows to a 
length of two feet, and is extensively 
used as food. 
Another genus—Lavochila (from two 
Greek words, signifying ‘‘hare’’ and 
‘‘lip’’), has but one species of the red- 
horses—Lagochila laccra (specific name 
from the Latin—‘‘torn’’). Itisa most 
singular fish, as its common names im- 
ply; itis called the hair-lipped sucker, 
rabbit-mouthed sucker, pea-lip sucker, 
and split-mouth. The angler will 
know it at once, if he has ever seena 
human being with a ‘‘hair-lip mouth.” 
It is of pale coloration, with the lower 
fins slightly reddish, and has twelve 
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dorsal rays, and. forty-five scales on the 
lateral line. It is quite common in 
some Arkansas waters, and grows to a 
length of eighteen inches. 
In the waters of the Rocky Moun- 
tains and those of the Pacific slope, 
many species of suckers are found, but 
this field has not, as yet, been exhaust- 
ively explored. Utah lake, however, 
is reported as being ‘‘the sucker pond 
of the world,” and several genera in- 
habit it in great numbers. In Lake 
Tahoe, in the Sacramento, Columbia 
and other and lakes of this 
region, a number of species abound, 
which are esteemed as food fish, but, 
so far as | can learn, are not sought 
after even by the hand-liners of the 
far West, hence need no description 
in a book written for the fishing fra- 
ternity. 
rivers 
(To be continued.) 

The Red Horse of the Yellowstone—(Catostomus ardens.) 
