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Catostomus commersonii (Lacepede), Common Sucker. 



Small examples frequently found on the shoals of the 

 lake with other small fish. A large fish of this species 

 found dead with lamprey scars, near the mouth of Scriba 

 Creek, Constantia. Specimens secured from the market 

 at Brewerton in May contained a large number of nearly 

 ripe eggs. A variable irregular red line along the side 

 is quite distinct in some specimens. 



Catostomus nigncans (LeSueur), Hog Sucker. 



One in the College of Forestry collection, that was 

 caught near Constantia, and others were secured from 

 Coville, fish dealer, at Brewerton. 



Ameiurus natalis (LeSueur) Yellow Bullhead. 



Ten examples were taken by us close to the mouths of 

 shoals having muddy bottoms, and from sluggish streams 

 entering Big Bay. 



Ameiurus nebulosus (LeSueur), Common Bullhead. 



Taken in places similar to those frequented by the 

 yellow bullhead. With this last species it seems to asso- 

 ciate, but it is apparently more common and more 

 generally distributed, at least in shallow water, than the 

 yellow bullhead. A few were found in the creeks at Con- 

 stantia. Many very small ones, under two inches in 

 length, were caught in Shaws Bay ; and some similar ones 

 were found in an isolated pool a few hundred feet inland 

 from Johnsons Bay. 



Esox reticulatus LeSueur, Chain Pickerel. 



Common, but our collecting methods were not of a kind 

 to get many of them in the lake. One taken in shallow 

 water of Shaws Bay and one from Big Bay. Many were 

 in a portion of Frederick Creek, where they were about 

 the overhanging banks of a part of the stream in woods 

 and where the water was quiet and its depth near a foot. 



