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from our eastern form in coloration and proportion of i)arts, have 

 also eigld dorsal rays. They are very dark with more elongate 

 bodies, shorter heads, subequal jaws, and dorsal insertion more 

 posterior. They seem to form a connecting link between ours 

 and C. d'tkotcnsis Evermann & Cox. 



The Gaspe fish, especially those from the Grand c«nd Little 

 Cascapedia, are the smallest and most brilliantly colored of all 

 coming under the writer's notice. The body is slender and long- 

 er in proportion to the head, with generally seven instead of five 

 dark longitudinal bands, the two extra ones often well defined 

 in life, one on each side of the vertebral line. 



2. Leuciscus cornutus <iiitln. 



Ued-fin. 



This at'iactive and well-known little cyprinid is found all 

 over eastern Canada. It is extremel}' varialde and has aft"ordcd 

 ichthyologists many nominal species, but the difi'erentiation is 

 made to rest u[)on such slight and varying characters that it is 

 more scientific to regard them all as local rer)resentatives of one 

 general tyjie. Si)ecimens from Ontario h;.ve abruptly blunted 

 muzzles, those of the males being obli(|uely truncate. It occurs 

 at least at one station on the Gaspe Peninsula, namely, the Grand 

 Cascapedia, where it is much smaller than elsewhere in, eastern 

 Canada, l^eing barely four inches long. Like all the cyprinids 

 of that region, its cohn-ation is l)rilliant in life, with the two 

 commctulv evanescent golden lateral bands visil)le after montiis 

 of immersion in spirit, and all the fins including the chin and 

 throat scarlet. The anai fin rays are eight instead of nive, and 

 the free margin of the dorsal is straight ov slightly convex, ow- 

 ing to a shortening of its anterior rays. There are twenty-seven 

 scales before the dorsal, while the N. B. and N. 8. forms vary 

 from sixteen to twenty-two. This boreal type is the most 

 strongly marked variety the writer has met. 



