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more common than they are now;” that they used to get some 
every time they lifted the pounds, while now half a dozen is the 
highest number taken in a season. Some years none at all are 
caught. Five were taken during the month of April, 1892, that 
weighed about 5 pounds apiece. - In April, 1891, one was brought 
in that weighed 78 pounds and was about 6 feet long. 
FAMILY XVI. ANGUILLIDA. THE EELS. 
59. Anguilla rostrata (Le Sueur). Common EEL. 
[Jord. Man. 218. O. St. Surv. 11.] 
Body linear, covered with small imbedded scales, placed ob- 
liquely, at right angles to each other, giving a mottled appearance 
to the body; dark above, light below. Length 4o inches. (See 
plate 2.) 
Large eels are occasionally taken in the pounds. I have never 
seen young ones, and do not think that they breed in the lake 
region. 
FAMILY XVII. GASTEROSTEID/E. THE STICKLEBACKS. 
60. Eucalia inconstans (Kirtland.) Brook STICKLE- 
BACK. 
[Jord. Man. 239. O. St. Surv. 164.] 
A vary dark-colored little fish with a remarkably slender caudal 
peduncle and a fan-shaped caudal fin, four distinct low spines be- 
fore the dorsal fin. Length 2% inches. ; 
I have found stickle-backs in but two places; the bayou near 
Turkey Ridge farm, in Pittsfield township, (see map, just across 
the stream from ‘‘W” of the word West), and in another hot, 
grassy little hole southeast of Oberlin. They are common enough 
in these two places, which are quite unlike the haunts described by 
Kirtland and Jordan. 
FAMILY XVIII. ATHERINID®. THE SILVERSIDES. 
61. Labidesthes sicculus Cope. Brook SILVERSIDEs. 
[Jord. Man. 250. O. St. Surv. I11.] 
A very slender rounded little fish; head long, pointed, flat 
above, transluscent green dotted with black; szdes with a broad 
silvery band, two dorsal fins. Length 3% inches. 
Quite common in the lake, and in the large streams, below the 
dams. 
