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may angle with dough-bait on a small hook, and secure possibly 
a dozen large ones in a morning’s fishing. ‘They take this bait 
readily, frequently entirely nibbling it off without being captured, 
as the cork bobs but little when the line is struck. They are 
especially brightly colored in early April, with blue backs and red 
ventrals, and average about 6 inches in length. 
Mr. C. H. Townsend calls attention to Dr. Bean’s re-exami- 
nation of specimens of the so-called “pearl roach” in the New 
York Aquarium. Examples of this fish were described by the 
latter as Abramis crysoleucas roseus. ‘They’are evidently an in- 
troduced European fish, apparently of another genus. Thus my 
suggestion that the variety, Brama crysoleucas versicolor 
(DeKay), is the same is unfounded. 
Notropis bifrenatus (Cope). 
Bridled Minnow. 
Frequent along the sandy shores of Mantua Creek near 
Mantua. They may be taken in the shallows with a dip-net, asso- 
ciated mostly with other small minnows as Notropis cornutus 
and Fundulus diaphanus. 
Notropis hudsonius amarus (Girard). 
Gudgeon. 
Gudgeon. Notropis hudsonius amarus (Girard). 
