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by fallen timbers. The water is always more or less muddy, except in the fall, 

 when very low, it approaches clearness. The river was fished for three-quarters 

 of a mile where Hunley Creek empties into it. The water was very low and the 

 fish were mostly collected in the deeper places in the channel. The ripples were 

 repeatedly seined, but were found to be poor in fish. These places seemed ideal 

 for darters, but not a single one was taken here. All that were caught were 

 living together and had collected in the apparently stagnant holes. 



Short Creek is a narrow muddy stream about seven miles in length, emptying 

 into Hunley Creek three miles above its mouth. During dry seasons it dries up 

 at many places and presents only pools of yellow, muddy, stagnant water. It was 

 in some of these pools from its mouth to about a mile above that our fishing was 

 done. 



Patoka River will be indicated by ( /') in the descriptions, and Short Creek 

 by iS). 



All of this collection is in the Indiana University Museum. 



The common names given are those by which they are known in this locality: 



1. Iclatunin piindalus ll^finesque. Channel cat. (P.) Two specimens. 



2. A iniirn m melas Riifinetique. Black cat. (P.) One specimen. 



3. 7.ep^o/).s o/iiar/x Rafinesque. Flat-head. Mud cat. (P.) One specimen. 



4. Schilheodes DiinruH Jordnn. (P.) Sixteen specimens. 



5. Mojoxtoma aureolum Le Sueur. Red hoise. White sucker. Four 

 specimens from Short Creek and fourteen from the Patoka River. 



6. Hybocpiallius nuchalia Aga.ssiz. Thirty-seven specimens from Short Creek 

 and fifty-nine from Patoka River. 



7. PmcepAa/es ?)o/a/»s Rafinesque. (P.) Seven specimens. 



8. CI iola V if/ ilax Baivd A (jiraird. (P.) Many specimens. 



9. Notropiii mierostomus Rairinesque. (P.) Nineteen specimens. 



10. Notropix whipplei GirsLrd. (P.) Sixty specimens. 



11. Notropix nroens Cope. (P.) Twenty specimens. 



12. Notropis Km brafilis G'wiird. (S. ) Fifty-eight specimens. 



13. iVo<ro/j(.s a//(ermo((/e.s- Rafinesque. {l\) Tliirty-eight specimens. 



14. Opsopoeoditii einiliae Hay. (S.) Two specimens. 



15. Notemigoneus chry^('leneusM\tc\\e\\. Golden shiner. (S) Five specimens. 



16. Doroxoma f-epedianum he ^nenr. Mud shad. Hickory shad. (P.) One 

 specimen. 



17. 2)/f/ortec<e.s «.o/a/(ts Ratinesque. Top minnow. (P. S. ) Sixty-one speci- 

 mens from Patoka River and five from Short Creek. 



18. Lucius vermiculnl IIS he Snenr. Pike. Pickerel, i P. ) Four specimens. 



