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with hooks, they are called “ Hickory Shad”. They are not esteemed 
very highly as a means for gratifying the palate. This species is 
reported from the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. 
Famitry CLUPEIDZ. 
GENUS CLUPEA, Artedi. 
26. Clupea chrysochloris (Raf.) Jor. (No. 27,453.) 
Pomolobus chrysochloris, RAFINESQUE. 
A single specimen of this species has been sent me by Mr. William 
A. Warner, of Enterprise. 
GENUS DOROSOMA, Rafinesque. 
27. Dorosoma cepedianum (Le 8.) Gill. (No. 27,454.) 
Dorosoma cepediana, JORDAN, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila, 1877, 69; subsp. 
heterurum, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 10, 65. 
Several specimens of this species were caught while seining a deep 
pond along the Noxubee River near Macon. I do not find that the 
characters assigned by Professor Jordan to the variety heterurum exist in 
my Specimens, unless it be that of the long filamentous ray of the dorsal 
fin. Even this distinction does not always hold good. I find no partic- 
uwlar differences between my largest specimen, 84 inches long, and a 
specimen of the same size from the Potomac. 
Famity CYPRINID. 
GENUS HYBORHYNCHUS, Agassiz. 
28. Hy borhynchus notatus (Raf.) Ag. (No. 27,441.) 
Hyborhynchus notatus, Copr, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1869, 392. 
A single specimen obtained at Corinth; many in the waters about 
Artesia and Macon. In their coloration some of the specimens that I 
obtained are different from any that I have seen from other localities 
and from any descriptions that have fallen under my eye. These peculi- 
arities of color are observed only in the largest individuals, those 24 
inches in length. Some of these are quite brown, this color being pro- 
duced by each scale having a black border. ‘The head is blue-black, of 
varying degrees of intensity, being in some cases almost jet-black. 
There is a deep black band occupying the whole upper half of the dorsal 
fin. The greater part of the caudal fin is also black, the base and tip 
only being light. There is sometimes a black spot near the tip of the 
posterior rays of the anal fin. In many of these dark-colored specimens 
the dark lateral band usually seen in this species is either obsolete or 
indistinct. These highly colored individuals are, no doubt, males in 
their wedding suits of black. The other party does not dress so gor- 
geously. 
