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are nearly ripe with spawn. All but 8 of those from Prairie Creek are nearly 

 ripe females ; while all of those from Firesteel Creek are males. 



57. Notropis gilberti Jordan & Meek. 



Notropis gilberti Jordan & Meek, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 4. Type locality : 

 Valley Creek, Ottumwa, Iowa. 

 Grand River, Clinton, and Tabo Creek, Calhoun, Mo. (Jordan & Meek, 

 1885) ; South Platte River at Denver (Jordan, 1891a) ; Boyer River, Arion, 

 Iowa; Soldier River, Charter Oak, Iowa (Meek, 1892); Verdigris Creek, 

 Verdigris ; canal at Niobrara ; creek at Norfolk Junction ; creek at Ewing ; 

 Bone Creek, Long Pine. This little fish seems to be quite rare. We found 

 it in but five places and secured but 18 specimens. It appears to prefer the 

 small streams or rivulets with sandy bottom and some current. 



58. Notropis piptolepis (Cope). Red Cloud Creek, a tributary of the North 



Platte (as Photogenis piptolepis type, Cope, 1871). Not obtained by any other 

 collector. 



59. Notropis shumardi (Girard). Jones Creek, Dixon, Mo.; Little Piney River 



at Newburg and Arlington, Mo. ; Gasconade River, Arlington, Mo. (as N. hoops, 

 Meek, 1891). 



60. Notropis hudsonius (Clinton). "Kansas River branches" (Graham, 1885); 



Wild Cat Creek, Kans. (Cragin, 1885a) ; Big Sioux River at Sioux City 

 (Meek, 1892); Floyd River at Sioux City; Spirit, East Okoboji, and West 

 Okoboji lakes (Meek, 1894). This species was obtained by us at Mitchell, 

 S. Dak., in Rock and Firesteel creeks, and in the Dakota River, where 45 

 specimens were collected. In the Dakota River, just below the milldam, 

 we found it in abundance; none of the specimens, however, was over 3 

 inches in length. In Spirit Lake and the other lakes about it this is the 

 most abundant minnow, and the principal live bait used by the anglers who 

 frequent these lakes. From all other Cyprinidce of the Missouri River this 

 species may be known by the large black spot at the base of the tail, and 

 the broad silver band on the side. The teeth of this species have usually 

 been given as 1, 4-4, or 1. As early as 1886 it was shown by Evermann 

 & Bollman* that they are often 1, 4-4, 2, or even 2, 4-4, 2. An examination 

 of numerous specimens in the present collection shows the same range in 

 variation, even in examples from the same locality. The form described in 

 1893 from Winnipeg as Notrojris scopiferus, by Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 

 seems to be this species, with the teeth 2, 4-4, 2. 



61. Notropis lutrensis (Baird & Girard). Big Creek, Hays City, Kans. (Ever- 



mann, collector, 1879) ; St. Joseph, Mo. (as Cyprinella bUUngsiana type and 

 as Montana jug alts type, Cope, 1871); Ward Creek, Shawnee County, Kans. 

 (as Cliola (?) gibbosa, Gilbert, 1884); Hundred and Two River at Bedford, 

 Iowa, and Maryville, Mo. ; Tabo Creek, Lexington, Mo. ; Blackwater Creek, 

 Brownsville, Saline County, Mo. ; Flat Creek, Sedalia, Mo. ; Grand River, 

 Clinton, Mo. ; Tabo Creek, Calhoun, Mo. (Jordan & Meek, 1885) ; Kansas 

 River and Missouri River at St. Joseph (as X. bUUngsiana, Graham, 1885); 

 "very abundant in Kansas " (Graham, 1885) ; Shunganunga and Ward creeks, 

 Shawnee County, Kans. (Gilbert, 1885) ; Missouri River at St. Joseph, and 

 Shunganunga and Ward creeks, Kans. (Cragin, 1885a) ; Republican River, 

 Concordia, Kans. ; Solomon River, Beloit, Kans. ; north fork of Solomon River 

 at Kirwin and Lenora, Kans. ; Saline River, Wakeeney, Kans. ; Smoky Hill 

 River, Wallace, Kans. (Hay, 1887) ; Sappa Creek, Oberlin, Kans. ; Logan, 

 Kans. ; Middle Beaver Creek, Smith County, Kans. ; Spring Creek, Smith Cen- 

 ter, Kans. ; Osage River, La Cygne, Kans. (Gilbert, 1889) ; Little Piney River at 

 Arlington and Newburg, Mo. ; Marais River, Dixon, Mo. (Meek, 1891); South 

 Platte River, Denver (Jordan, 1891a) ; Boyer River at Arion, Iowa (Meek, 



* Notes on a collection of fishes from the Monongahela River, by Barton W. Evermann and Charles 

 H. Bollman. l'roc. K. Y. Ac. Sci. 1886, 335-340. 



