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one patch was under a board and one under an old shovel blade 

 and one under a cook-stove top. Each patch of eggs was oblong 

 with the longest diameter nearly six inches; each was attended 

 by a large male of the species about three and a half inches long 

 with body highly charged with black pigment, especially intense 

 on the head. Two of them captured had each sixteen tubercles 

 or pearl organs arranged in three horizontal rows on the snout. 

 The attending fish were as usual very bold in defense of their eggs 

 and hence were easily caught. 



The eggs on the shovel blade were left as they were found 

 after the male fish watching them had been taken, and the next 

 day they were all gone, very probably eaten by crayfish or minnows. 



9. Semotilus atromaculaius (Mitchill), Creek Chub. — Many 

 were found in the river but these were all small ones, none much 

 over two inches in length. Larger ones, four to five inches long, 

 were caught in August in the pools of the ravine stream in the 

 woods. Station 46. 



ID. Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill), Golden Shiner. — 

 Apparently scarce in the region. A few taken in the river at 

 Station 30 and a few from the small stream. Station 26. One 

 caught in a slough, at Station 70, in June. All taken were small 

 fish under three inches in length. 



11. Notropis hlennius (Girard), Straw-colored Minnow. — 

 Taken only at Statioh i, at the mouth of the river. 



12. Notropis hudsonius (Clinton), Spot- tail Minnow. — Taken 

 in the river at Station i and not elsewhere in the stream. 



13. Notropis whipplii (Girard), Silver-fin Minnow. — Found at 

 the mouth of the river. Station i, and not elsewhere in the stream. 



14. Notropis cornutus (Mitchill), Common Shiner. — The most 

 abundant and most generally distributed minnow in the part of 

 the Galien River fished. Large examples were uncommon, and 

 these were confined to rather definite and rather unusual conditions 

 in the stream where the water was clear and rapid and where the 



