INTRODUCTION. 9 
““A Descriptive List of the Fishes of Big Jelloway Creek, Knox 
County, Ohio.’’ Many color: descriptions of species in high 
breeding coloration are given, and some interesting breeding and 
occurrence notes. 
Prof. EK. B. Williamson has kindly furnished the author with 
an unpublished list of twenty-six species taken by him in the 
vicinity of Salem, Columbiana County. 
During the summers of 1899 and 1goo, aided by a portion of 
the Emerson McMillin fund of the Ohio Academy of Science, the 
writer was enabled to investigate some parts of the state not 
before studied, and, as the general distribution of the food fishes 
was already quite well known, attention was turned more directly 
to the smaller and less conspicuous species. As a result of the 
investigation, several species not previously noted have been 
added to the list for the state, and a number of rare species 
recorded for new localities and their range extended, while the 
knowledge of the distribution of many of the more common 
species in the state has been considerably furthered. Ten days 
spent in the vicinity of Ironton, seining in the Ohio River and 
Ice Creek, a small tributary of the Ohio, and in Johns Creek, a 
tributary of Symmes Creek, gave some interesting results. The 
Ohio River, with its tributaries, Wheeling Creek and McMahon 
Creek, was also seined in the vicinity of Bellaire. The shallow 
waters of Sandusky Bay were hauled in many places and /Votropzs 
heterodon was added to the state list. The Huron River, with 
one of its small tributaries, was seined in the vicinity of Milan, 
and fifty species, nearly all common, were taken. Ashtabula 
Creek, in Ashtabula County, was seined, but yielded only a 
meager list, due to the fact that the stream flows for nearly its 
whole course over a solid shale bottom. The small streams form- 
ing the headwaters of the Wabash River, in Mercer County, 
yielded a good representative list, forty-nine species being taken. 
Stillwater and Wolf Creeks, tributaries of the Miami, near Day- 
ton, were hauled, and Axoglossum maxillingua taken—a most 
unexpected find. The Cuyahoga River and its tributary, Break- 
neck Creek, were seined near Kent, and the Cuyahoga again at 
Hawkins; Grand River, with its small tributaries, was hauled 
for some distance above Painesville, and the Chagrin River was 
