MUSSELS OP BIG BUFFALO FORK OF WHITE RIVER. 

 Camps on Buffalo Fork of White River, Ark. 



No special effort was made to collect fishes, and the few taken in 

 Rush Creek and in a small stream near Mount Hersey were damaged 

 by the swamping of a boat and were not brought out. A number of 

 game fishes, including rock bass, green sunfish, long-eared sunfish, 

 and small-mouth black bass were caught by casting. A yellow cat 

 {Leptops olivaris) was taken on a set line, and some residents had 

 taken with a spear some other catfishes, which were identified as 

 Ameiums aujidUa. Suckers (the common white sucker and the red 

 horse) were apparently common. Small fishes were nowhere abun- 

 dant, the more common species being Notropis zonatus. No large- 

 mouth black bass were seen until near Red Cloud mine, where one 

 specimen was taken, and a second one jumped into our boat at the last 

 station, but below Red Cloud mine fly fishing was very poor as com- 

 pared with that in the river farther up. 



MUSSEL BEDS LOCATED. 



The exact location of the various mussel beds was rather difficult 

 of determination. So few people were living along the stream that 

 it was impossible to learn the local names of the fords, bluffs, and 

 many of the shoals. It was possible, however, to locate the camps 

 quite accurately and to approximate the distance between them, which 

 enabled us to locate the beds fairly well, since they are usually found 

 on the outer or bluff side of the river. Following is a list of the 

 approximate localities where the collections of shells were made : 



Station 1. — July 21, camp A. Immediately above the second ford 

 above Welche's, where the Harrison-Jasper stage crosses the river, 

 a few shells were found on gravelly bottom. Farmers living near 



