FISHES 



12. Butterfish. Golden Shiner. Abramis cryso- 

 leucas (Mitchill). Common in the quiet, weedy 

 waters of Toronto and Ashbridge's Bay. Its flesh is 

 edible, but soft and weedy-flavored. Spawns in 

 early summer. 



13. Shiner. Redfin. Dace. Notropis cornutus 

 (Mitchill). This handsome fish is abundant in all 

 streams of any size, particularly so in those where 

 rapids alternate with deep pools and eddies. It 

 spawns in early summer on stony shallows. As a 

 food fish it is of no value, its flesh being soft and 

 tasteless, but it is unexcelled as bait for Maskinonge, 

 Bass, etc. 



14. Notropis atherinoides (Rafinesque).- 



15. Long-nosed Dace. Niagara Gudgeon. Rhi- 

 nichthys cataractae (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Abundant in the rapid streams. 



16. Black-nosed Dace. Rhinichthys atronasus 

 (Mitchill). Very common in all streams. 



17. Lake Chub. Couesius plumbeus (Agassiz). 

 Occurs in Lake Ontario, but is not common in this 

 locality. 



18. Carp. Cyprinus carpio (Linnaeus) (Intro- 

 duced). There are three varieties of this species, 

 the German or Scale Carp, the Mirror Carp, and the 

 Leather Carp, the distinction between them being 

 based upon the scale arrangement. The Leather 

 Carp is nearly without scales. The Mirror has a 

 few scales of unequal size, irregularly placed ; while 



f German variety has the body completely covered 

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