New York, September 15, 1914. No. 10. 



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Published to advance the Science of cold-blooded vertebrates. 



FISHES FROM POCOTALIGO RIVER, 

 SOUTH CAROLINA 



During a recent trip to central South Carolina, 

 May 14-June 1, 1914, I obtained a few fish from 

 the Pocotaligo swamp near Manning in the coastal 

 plain, which have been identified by Mr. Henry W. 

 Fowler, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, and which are now in the collection 

 of that institution. As a list of them may be of 

 interest in tracing the range of the several species, 

 it is here presented. 



An examination of numerous strings of fish 

 caught by negro boys in the various channels of 

 the river in the heart of the swamps showed the 

 following species, which are evidently the most 

 common forms, found in such localities, though 

 doubtless there are others: Ameiurus natalis, 

 Chwnobryttus gulosus, Acantharchus pomotis, 

 Enneacanthus obesus and Esox americanm. I also 

 obtained in a scoop net a number of Gambusia 

 holbrooki in one of the channels where a small 

 brook entered from the edge of the swamp. At 

 the head of a small tributary swamp, the water 

 from what was originally a large shallow pool, had 

 almost entirely disappeared, leaving a puddle a few 

 feet in diameter literally swarming with little fish, 



