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occurs in considerable numbers. Females with eggs 

 were observed on May 35. 



10. Pimephales promelas I afinesque. Head 4 ; 

 depth 3% ; eye 4. D. 1, 7 ; A. 7; scales 8-44-5 ; teeth 

 4 4, Color, dark olive, each scale with a dusky edge ; 

 paler below ; a dark lateral band and caudal spot ; 

 head dark, with tubercles on snout and lower jaw. 

 Dorsal fin with a dusky bar through it ; other fins all 

 plain. Length two and one eighth inches. Rare ; a 

 specimen from a mere puddle near Big Jelloway, and 

 another from Doudy Creek were the only ones taken. 



11 Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque). Head 4V^; 

 depth 4V2 ; eye 4iA ; D. S. 8 ; A- 7 ; scales 6-45-4 ; 

 teeth 4-4. Above, dark olive brown, each scale black 

 edged ; sides and belly paler ; a black speck above and 

 below each pore of the lateral line ; head black. Dor- 

 sal fin with an anterior black spot on its middle, and 

 with the rays posteriorly dark ; other fins paler ; rays 

 dark tinged. Head with sixteen tubercles. Length 

 three and one half inches. Abundant in every stream. 

 Females with ripe eggs on May 23, lb and 26. 



12 Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill). Head 

 3% ; depth 4 ; eye 51/2. •'. 8; A. 8; scales 9-55 to 60- 

 G; teeth 2, 5-4, 2. Dark olive above, paler below ; 

 sides with a brassy luster ; an indistinct lateral band 

 and caudal spot, and an indistinct stripe along side of 

 head, through eye, ( these markings distinct in young 

 specimens) ; tip of snout black. Caudal and lower fins 

 tinged with organge ; sometimes sides of head and 

 lower fins rosy ; dorsal with a black spot at its base, 

 confined to the membranes of the four anterior rays of 

 the fin. Length seven inches. Common or abundant. 



13, Leuciscus elongatus (Kirtland). Head 3 4-5 ; 

 depth 5 ; eye 4%. D. 8; A. 9; teeth 2, 5-4, 2. Color, 

 above, grass green ; a dark vertebral line ; the green 

 bordered below by a narrow brassy band ; below this 

 is a broad band which is bright blood red anteriorly, 



