9.-A REPORT UPON THE FISHES OF SOUTHWESTERN 



MINNESOTA. 



By Ulysses O. Cox. 



During the past five years the writer has been making- collections 

 of the fishes from the various streams and lakes in the southwestern 

 part of Minnesota, especially from the Minnesota and Blue Earth rivers 

 and their tributaries. In June, 1894, at the suggestion of the United 

 States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, several additional lakes and 

 streams were visited for the express purpose of learning as much as 

 possible concerning the run of tlie buffaloes and suckers, about which 

 so much has been said by various persons in this region. 



All of that portion of the State where these investigations were made 

 lies in the region of glacial drift, and, with the exception of limited 

 areas around Mankato, where limestone and sandstone outcrop, and at 

 Ortonville and a few other places along the Upper Minnesota River, 

 where granite outcrops, the entire surface is covered with drift matter. 



A large area near Mankato is wooded, and this wooded area extends 

 in a greater or less degree on the east to the State line, while west from 

 Mankato it is but a few miles to the eastern border of the Great Plains. 



The fishes here listed were taken from Minnesota- River and its tribu- 

 taries or Des Moines River and its tributaries, but most of tliem are 

 from the former. It is thought desirable to include in the list those 

 fishes which were collected by Prof. A. J. Wool man and the writer 

 from Upper Minnesota River and Big Stone Lake in July, 1892, and 

 which have been listed by Mr. Woolman in the Report of the United 

 States Fish Commission for 1893 pages 313 to 373. 



The following is a classified list of the waters from which the fishes 

 here listed were taken: 



Minnesota system. Minnesota system — Continued. 



Little Minnesota River at Browns Lake Washington near Mankato. 



Valley. Lake George near Mankato. 



Big Stono Lake at Browns Valley 7 . ir . 



° , _. . .,, * Des Manns si/stem. 



and Ortonville. „ ." „_.. , 



. _. ,_ . .,, , Des Moines River at Av indoiu. 



Minnesota IviveratOrtonville.Aynil'- „ T 1T , . ,„. , 



, _ ' * L Y\ ood Lake at V\ mdoin. 



ton, Montevideo, and Mankato. t-, , ,, T , .-., , T , 

 „ ' , _ ' East and A\ est Okabena Lake at 

 Pomme do lerre River at Apnleton. ,~ ., • 

 _, _,. ,, li V\ ortbiuo'ton. 

 Chippewa River at Montevideo. TT T , , _, _ , 

 \, ,, n . „ , Heron Lake at Heron Lake. 



Round Lake near Worthingrton. 



Blue Earth River at Mankato 

 Miimeopa Creek near Mankato, 



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