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10. Moxostoma aureolum (Le Sueur) Common Red-horse. 

 Abundant in largerstreams : rivers and large creeks. 



11. Moxostoma breviceps (Cope) Short-headed Red-horse. 

 Uncommon. Seemingly confined to rivers and large 



creeks. 



12. Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, European Carp. 



Common in parts of the Embarras and Kaskaskia Rivers. 

 No records for tributary streams. 



13. Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque), Stone-roller. 

 Abundant and very generally distributed in the Embar- 

 ras system- preferring the smaller streams. No records 

 have been obtained for the Kaskaskia system in Coles 

 county. 



14. Hybognathus nuchalis Agassiz. Silvery Minnow. 



Abundant in the Kaskaskia system in small creeks. 

 Very scarce in the Embarras system. 



15. Pimephales promelas Rafinesque, Black-head Minnow. 

 Common in portions of some small creeks where the 



water is sluggish and where the banks are grassy and 

 shelving. No records have been obtained for its oc- 

 currence in the Kaskaskia system from the writer's 

 collections. Forbes and Richardson record it from that 

 system. 



16. PHmephales notatus (Rafinesque), Blunt-nosed Minnow. 



Abundant and very generally distributed in all but the 

 smallest fish-bearing streams. This is undoubtedly 

 the best represented species of fish in numbers of indi- 

 viduals, found in the Charleston region. 



17. Semotilus atromaculatus (^litchill). Horned Dace. 

 Abundant and found in all types of fish bearing streams 



in the region. It prefers small creeks. 



18. Abramis chrysoleucas (Mitchill), Golden Shiner. 

 Uncommon a])Out Charleston, but sometimes found in 



small numbers about thick growths of aquatic plants. 



19. Cliola vigilax (Baird and Girard), Bullhead Minnow. 

 Periodically abundant in some parts of the Embarras 



River, and a few have been taken from all parts of the 

 stream where collecting has been thoroughly done. 

 Common in the Kaskaskia River. It appears to be con- 

 fined to these large streams for no specimens have 

 been caught in their tributaries. 



20. Notropis cayuga Meek. 



Recorded from Coles county by Forbes and Richardson 

 None have been found by the writer. 



21. Notropis blennius (Girard), Straw-colored Minnow. 

 Quite common in the Embarras River and in its larger 



tributaries ; none recorded from small creeks. It ap- 

 pears to be absent in the Kaskaskia system. 



