362 Lake Maxinkuckee, Physical and Biological Survey 



Head 4 in body; depth 4; eye H in snout, 4 in head. D. 7; 

 A. 7; lateral line 64; teeth 2, 4-4, 2. Body moderately elongate, 

 little compressed ; head moderate, rather broad and flattish above ; 

 snout moderate; mouth small, horizontal, sub-terminal, the lower 

 jaw included; barbel minitte but probably always present; upper 

 lip on level of lower part of pupil, maxillary not reaching nearly 

 to eye, eye small, nearly median; fins rather small; dorsal fin well 

 back, its insertion about midway between nostril and base of 

 caudal; scales quite small, somewhat embedded. Color, blackish 

 above, some of the scales irregularly darker; a black band 

 passing from snout through eye and along side of body; a paler 

 streak below this; belly silvery; males in spring with the lateral 

 band and the lower fins and sometimes the whole body, bright 

 crimson; males in late summer with the lateral band scarlet or 

 orange, the red color growing faint later in the season. Length 

 3 inches. 



The specimens obtained varied in length from 1.06 to 2.55 

 inches. They differ in several respects both from the description 

 of the typical spscies and from the subspecies lunatus, in the range 

 of which the Lake Maxinkuckee region is included. The head 

 varies from 3f to 4, the depth from 4 to 5, eye from 3^ to 4, 

 usually 4, snout from 3 to 3, usually 3, scales 10 or 11 above lateral 

 line, from 60 to 67, usually 60, in lateral line, usually 7 below. 

 One example had scales over only of the body. In all examples 

 except one, the dorsal had 8 rays instead of 7. 



32. RIVER CHUB 



HYBOPSIS KENTUCKIENSIS (Rafinesque) 



The River Chub is a species of wide distribution; from New 

 England and Pennsylvania its range extends westward to Wyoming 

 and southward on both sides of the Alleghenies to Alabama. It 

 is nearly everywhere abundant in the larger streams, but it does 

 not by preference so often frequent smaller streams or lakes. Like 

 all other familiar species of wide distribution it is favored with 

 many common names, among which may be mentioned hornyhead, 

 jerker, river chub, common chub, horned chub, Indian chub, and 

 red-tail chub. 



At Lake Maxinkuckee where the streams are all small, the river 

 chub is not common. The only specimens (3 in number) obtained 

 by us were seined in Aubeenaubee Creek. They range in length 

 from 3.25 to 6 inches. 



Like all other members of the family the Hornyhead spawns in 



