308 Fishes of Upper Georgia. 



Some of them are muddy with red clay after a rain ; and a 

 few are merely successions of weedy pools full of spatter- 

 docks and snakes. Of course, certain differences were ob- 

 served in the fauna} of these streams, but nothing that need 

 be dwelt upon here. 



So far as is known to the author, there is no printed record 

 of any fish whatever from the water basin of the Etowah ; 

 and the few species which have been described by Agassiz, 

 Storer, and Girard, from neighboring parts of Alabama, are 

 most of them very imperfectly known. The writer has, 

 therefore, been able to do just what lie anticipated doing in 

 selecting this point for field-work, viz. : («) to verify a 

 number 'of little known species; (b) to consign a number of 

 nominal species to the limbo of synonymy ; and (c) to make 

 known a few peculiar forms which arc believed to be new to 

 science. 



Of most of the species here mentioned, hundreds of speci- 

 mens were taken ; and the descriptions in this paper have 

 been generally drawn from the average of a large number of 

 specimens, and not from a lew individuals. These specimens 

 are deposited in the Museum of the Butler University at 

 Indianapolis, Indiana, under the auspices of which institution 

 they were collected. 



PERCID.S2. 

 BOLEICIITIIYS. 



= Boleichthys Girard, Proc. Phil. Ac. Sc., 1859, 10-1. (Type B. exilis 

 Girard). 



> Hololepis Aoassiz, Putnam, Bull. M. C. Z., 18G3, 4. (Type Boleosoma 

 barrattii Ilolbrook). 



1. BOLEICIITIIYS ELEGANS. 



Boleichthys elegans Girard, Proc. Phil. Ac. Sc, 1859, lOi. Jordan and 

 Copelaud, Bull. Hull*. Nat. Hist. Soc, 187G, 135. 



Numerous specimens of a small Boleichthys from the ' 

 Etowah are identified with the above species, with some 

 doubt. However, they cannot well belong to any other do- 



