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cles on top and sides. A few specimens from Big 

 Jelloway Creek have a dark band between the brassy 

 lateral band had the vertebral line. These specimens 

 were about four inches long and were the most 

 brilliant colored ones observed. Length seven and 

 three fourths inches. Abundant in every stream. 

 Females, varying in length from two to five inches 

 were observed with eggs on May 23, 25 and 26. 



18. Notropis atberinoides Rafinesque. Head 

 41/2 ; depth 5^2 ; eye SV?.. D.8 ; A.IO ; scales 5—40—3 ; 

 teeth 2,4 — 4,2. Above, clear translucent olive green ; 

 a yellow iridescent vertebral line, and mottlings of 

 the same color on the head ; sides silvery with a 

 brassy lateral band ; lips black ; fins plain. Length 

 four inches. Abundant in Big Jelloway. 



19. Notropis rabri/rons (Cope). Head 4 ; depth 

 5 ; eye 3V2. D.8 ; A.IO ; scales 5—40—3 ; teeth 2,4—4.2. 

 Above, clear olive, each scale with a dark edge ; 

 sides and under parts silvery ; a narrow coppery 

 lateral stripe, overlying dark pigment. In breeding 

 males the head, thoracic region, and bases of the 

 dorsal, ventral and pectoral fins are bright blood red. 

 Length two and three fourths inches. Occasionally 

 observed in large schools over clean gravelly places in 

 ripples. Females with ripe eggs on May 23. 



20. Ericymha buccata Cope. Head ^V2\ depth 

 41/2; eye 31/2. D. 8; A. 8; scales 4—36—3; teeth 1. 

 4 — 4, 1, sometimes 1, 4 — 4, 0. Above, light translucent 

 olive, each scale edged with dark ; a dark vetebral line ; 

 sides silvery, with a brassy lateral band. Fins all 

 plain. Length three and one-fourth inches. Abundant; 

 taken in every stream. Females with eggs on May 24. 



21. Rhinichthys atronasas (Mitchill). Head 3 

 4-5; depth 4V2; eye 4^2; D. 8; A. 7; scales 10—66— 

 6; teeth 2, 4 — 4,2. Above, dark yellowish olive, much 

 blotched with black; a wide, bright orange lateral 



