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but not very common, McCormick, 1892; taken throughout the 
Maumee river basin in Ohio, except in Gordon creek and the west 
end of Lake Erie, Kirsch, 1893 ; Franklin County, occurs abund- 
antly in all the larger streams, females with ripe eggs June 28, 
Williamson and Osburn, 1897 ; Knox County, Big Jelloway creek 
and tributaries, not rare, Parker, Williamson and Osburn, 1808 ; 
Ohio river at Ironton, Huron river at Milan, Sandusky Bay, Ash- 
tabula creek at Ashtabula, Wabash river at Celina, Stillwater 
and Wolf creeks near Dayton, North Fork of Licking river at 
Newark, R. C. Osburn, 1899 ; Mahoning river, E. B. William- 
son, 1900; Cuyahoga river at Hawkins, Chippewa lake, Grand 
river at Painesville, Chagrin river at Willoughby, Wheeling creek 
at Bridgeport, Ohio river and McMahon’s Run at Bellaire, 
Licking reservoir, R. C. Osburn, 1goo. 
Notropis cornutus (Mitchill). ComMoN SHINER ; SILVERSIDES. 
Head 3% to 4%; depth about 3 (23 to 34); eye 4-534. D. 8; A. 9; 
scales 6-41-3 or 4, closely imbricated, 18 or 20 before dorsal; teeth 2, 4-4, 2, 
with narrow grinding surface. Body varying much with age, in young 
slender, in adult short, deep and compressed. Jateral line decurved. Color 
above, dark olive green to steel-blue, sides silvery, with a brassy lateral 
band; a brassy vertebral line (this color showing only in fresh specimens, 
sometimes appearing as a dark line when out of water). Fins all plain, 
rosy tipped in breeding males. Females and young plainer. One of the 
most variable of our Minnows, varying with age, sex and season. Length 
about Io inches. 
One of the most abundant of fishes all over the state. Given 
by Kirtland as Rutulus compressus and Luxulus chrysocephalus ; 
by Jordan as Luvulus cornutus. Hamilton County, as Votropis 
megalops, ‘‘abundant everywhere,’’ Henshall, 1888; Lorain 
County, ‘“‘very common everywhere,’’ McCormick, 1892; 
Maumee river system, ‘‘ every stream,’’ Kirsch, 1893; Franklin 
County, ‘‘taken in every stream, generally abundant, females 
with eggs on July 6,’’ Williamson and Osburn, 1897; Knox 
County, taken in every stream of the Big Jelloway creek system, 
Parker, Williamson and Osburn, 1898 ; Ohio river and Ice creek 
at Ironton, John’s creek at Waterloo, Huron river at Milan, San- 
dusky Bay, Ashtabula creek, Wabash river at Celina, Stillwater 
and Wolf creeks at Dayton, and North Fork of Licking river at 
