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rather dark golden-saffron tinge. Anal yellowish-brown. Pec- 
toral and ventral yellow. Inside of gill-opening with purplish 
reflections. Iris yellowish-white, above greenish. ‘Trenton. 
Our most abundant minnow and found alike in small brooks, 
ponds, pools, and the deeper waters of the Delaware River. In 
the upland streams the young are most frequently met with. 
They associate in large schools, often in the shallows of the more 
sluggish or still waters. In such places, apparently protected 
from more formidable enemies and at the same time finding an 
abundance of food supplies, they swim slowly about. Frequently 
they turn, suddenly exposing a gleaming silvery side to the sun- 
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Roach. Brama crysoleucas (Mitchill). (Adult.) 
light which has earned for them the appropriate name of 
“shiner.” I have found them associated with most all of our 
common fishes. Sometimes they reach a length of nearly a foot, 
when they are thought by some to be the young of the shad, a 
fish with which they have some superficial resemblance. These 
larger ones are frequently taken with ordinary earth-worms on 
hooks by youthful anglers. They make a good pan-fish, but are 
usually too small to be of any importance. 
Notemigonus chrysoleucus Jordan, An. N. Y. Acad. Sci., I, 
1879, p. 114.—Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, p. 179. 
Abramis crysoleucas Evermann, Recreation, April, 1902, p. 
202. 
