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black snake. It Tikes to go in the water. Dorsal scales cariuated. Tail brown, 

 having- at the end a short obtuse and compressed horn, as most of the snakes. 



32. Coluber tesselatut. Grey, checkered like a chess board with red spots, and 

 some bl.ek ones intermixed. — Length three feet. This beautiful snake was found 

 at Louisville in a hogshead of sugar imported from Louisiana. It is called calli- 

 coe snake in Louisiana. 



33. Coluber fulvbventer. Entirely black above, and brick-red beneath, throat 

 yellow ; dorsal scales carinated ; about tv. o hundred abdominal scales, and seven- 

 ty pairs of caudal ; tail one fifth of total length. — Length nearly three feet; it 

 lias large teeth, but no fangs. Vulgar name chicken snake Found in Kentucky, 

 Ohio, Indiana, &c. 



34 Angidnus fJtngvu L.J fasciatus. Yellowish-white, v. ith broad brown 

 ring's, marginatcd of black on the back, and on the sides a row of small interme- 

 diary bands like spots j head mixed with brown. — Length one foot, cylindrical; 

 scales smooth, hexagonal, head with large scales above and flattened. It lives 

 near Lake George and Lake Champlain : vulgar names, eel snake, ring snake, 

 worm snake. 



IV CLASS. ICHTHYOSIS THE FISHES. 



II. N. G. Hmnm. Abdominal. Body oblong, one dorsal fin opposite to the 

 vent ; head Bmall, mouth puckered, toothlc ss, looking upwards, lower lip longer, 

 gill cover double ; abdominal fin with only five rays, and a scaly lateral appen- 

 dage at the base.— It belongs to the fiimih CypriidiUa, it differs from Cyprinw by 

 the mouth and abdominal fins, which have appendages like the real G. .Sulmo, 

 Clvpea, Sparta, Uc. This striking character has been neglected by all the Ich- 

 thyologists; 1 wish to draw their attention to it. The generic name means half- 

 double. 



35. Ifmiplus laautru. Silvery, with gilt shades, back and top of the head 

 brownish ; lateral line curved downwards, ■ secon,! and upper one Straight reach 

 iog the dorsal fin only; all the fin* olivaceous tipped with brown: dorsal tin nine 

 rayed, anal falcate fourteen rayed, tail forked.— 1 have already mentioned this 

 small fish in the Amer. M. Mag. 1st Dec of new fishes, sp. 7, vol. 2. p. 121 un- 

 der the name of Cyprinvt henaphu. It is found in Lake George, Lake Saratoga 

 and Lake Champlain. Length three to six inches. l'cct. 1 -1. C. 24. Vulgar 

 names Shiner or Minnv. 



\36. GuprimM hamatopienu. Back olivaceous brown, sides coppered, pale be- 

 neath; head black, tuberculated above and on the lower lip, gill cover reddish 

 with a black spot : lateral line curved downwards at the base ; tail forked lower 

 fins bloody red, anal and dorsal nine rayed, this last in the middle of the back — 

 A pretty fish called red-fin chub, not uncommon in the streams falling into the 

 Hudson. Length five or six inches; iris gilt, mouth large terminal toothless 

 jaws equal ; all the fins olivaceous, marginated or tipped with bloo ly red the nee 

 '.oral and abr ommals are entirely red, the first ray of the pectoral 'is bluish P 

 1.5. abd. 9. C. 20. Kyes black. 



37. CypHnwtrivittntm Back and fins olivaceous, a brown longitudinal band 

 on the back, a broad bluish band on each side above the lateral hue which is 

 nearly Straight; belly white will, gilt shades, head brown, rather rough above 

 gill cover gilt: tad forked, anal and dorsal fins with nine rays, this last in the mid- 



die of the back—Similar ;to the foregoing and to my C.vittahis in many points. 

 Ins gilt brown. Found in the FiabkiUand Wallkill creeks, state ofaVew-York. 



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In lilt u Z SC \ k ,f f f?^ &C J ro, «"n«»« salmon trout, white trout. 

 W lake trout, Uc ; length twoto tour feet. Very good food, flesh reddish. 



V CLASS. PLAXOMIA— THE CRUSTACEA. 



iu« Li' 2.' S, "V" "" % A " Xcma (1,,,in 'c tl.r.n the head, four nearly equal, with 



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ISSt^SSZS^V^^ WiUl " ,aree Utml W**&* orlcale , the 

 U largci w.d with an additional posterior uppehdage, the corresnondin? feet 







