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7. Moxostoma aureolum ( LeSueiir ). Head 4 to 

 5; depth 4 to 5; eye 4V2 to 5; D. lo or 14, sometimes 12. 

 rarely 15 ; scales G or 7-48 to 49-5. Above, olive with 

 brassy luster ; below, silvery ; fins all plain, the lower 

 ones orange ; nose, anal fin, and lower part of caudal 

 fin tuberculate. Abundant ; the young fry ascending- 

 even the smallest brooks. Taken with eggs on May 

 20, 1898. 



8. Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque). Head 

 4 ; depth 4 2-5 ; eye 5 . D. 8 ; A. 7 ; scales 7-48-6 ; 

 teeth 4-4. Back brownish, sometimes almost black ; 

 sides brassy, irregularly mottled with black ; some- 

 times head and sides below, rosy ; young with a dark 

 loteral stripe extending onto the gill covers and 

 between eye and snout ; entire dorsum prickly in the 

 breeding males. Dorsal fin tinged with orange, a 

 black bar through its middle; caudal and pectorals 

 slightly, and anal and ventrals heavily pigmented with 

 orange, especially near their bases; ventrals and 

 pectorals with black at their bases ; caudal with a 

 triangular black spot near its base. Length six 

 inches. Apparently the most abundant species of fish 

 in the Big Jelloway System. 



9. Chrosomas erythrogaster Rafinesque. Head 

 4; depth 4 ; eye '.W2. D. 8; A. 8; teeth 5-5. Above, 

 brown with numerous narrow brassy cross-bars ; an 

 interrupted, black vertebral line which has near it on 

 each side an irregular row of black dots ; sides creamy 

 white, bordered above and below with a black band, 

 the lower the broader and extending through the eye, 

 which is yellow, and ending posteriorly in a caudal 

 spot ; under parts white, in breeding males entirely 

 suffused with vermillion. Fins all bright sulphur 

 yellow, the dorsal with a bright red spot at its b^se 

 anterior]}^ ; females less brilliantly colored. Length 

 two inches. Taken only in Parker's Run, where it 



