THE AQUARIUM BULLETIN 



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collected fine, hardy specimens of 

 Cr OS III us areas and Xotropus 

 cerasiinis. The water, which found 

 its source in a small spring, was 

 nearly still. The following day I 

 took a wagon with my cans and a 

 helper and in two hours had the cans, 

 each 20 inches in diameter, filled with 

 some 500 selected specimens. 



My elation was short-lived, how- 

 ever, for a game warden, to whom 

 complaint had been made, approached 

 and I was placed under arrest for 

 game fishing without a license. My 

 documents, proving that my efforts 

 were strictly for scientific purposes, 

 were disregarded and a local Justice 

 of the Peace fined me $70. Not 

 having this sum at the moment, I was 

 placed in confinement, being taken ten 

 miles by automobile to the county seat. 

 Strange to say, these good-hearted 

 people did not add a charge for this 

 unsolicited ride. 



The following day I was visited by 

 more county officials who pleasantly 

 informed me that the Justice had 

 erred in his fine and that it had been 

 increased to $200 instead. It now 

 dawned upon me that my cans, etc., 

 had excited more than ordinary 

 attention and that I was suspected of 

 being an anarchist or worse. 



After paying my fine under protest, 

 I wired to Dr. Smith of Washington, 

 D. C, Commissioner of Fishes and 

 President of the Washington Aquari- 

 um Society, who courteously inter- 

 vened in my favor. 



The protest against the fine and 

 confiscation will be appealed and 

 decided in a few months and, as the 

 District Attorney doubts the legality 

 of the action taken, there is every 

 probability of a proper refund being 

 made. 



Anxious about my specimens, I 



hurried to the railway station and 

 found they had received no care, the 

 water being black and only some 

 twelve fishes still living. 



My next stop was at Washington 

 where I visited the Aquarium and left 

 bottled specimens for classification, 

 which was made as follows : 



Minnows: Hybopsis kentuckiensis, 

 RhiuichtJiys atronasus, Notropis om- 

 brafilis ardens, N. ccrasinus, N. hud- 

 soniiis, N. inacdonaldi, N. procne, N. 

 pyrrhoiuelas, N. cJialyhaeus, C/iroso- 

 III us areas, Leuciscus zumdoisulus and 

 an unknown specimen. 



Suckers : Catostomus commersomi. 



Darters : Etheostoma flahellare, E. 

 thalassinum and three unknown 

 specimens. 



Sculpins : Cottus iefalops. 



Madtoms: Schilbeodes insignis. 



Note : Owinpr to these conditions it was 

 impossible to procure any photographs as was 

 planned. — Ed. 



PTEROPHYLLUM SCALARE 



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 swim, they are carefully watched by 

 the parent fish so they cannot go 

 astray or be attacked by some enemy. 

 After seven days they are able to 

 swim about, but return to the pit the 

 first night and huddle together in a 

 lump. 



The baby fishes look much like 

 young Helleri ; in about two weeks 

 they have the appearance of an Am- 

 bassis Lala, in four weeks more it is 

 first noticed that they commence to 

 resemble their parents. In a further 

 five weeks they attain the full shape 

 of the parent fish. Pterophyllum 

 Scalare grow rapidly and are of good 

 size when eight months old. 



