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Body oblong, the back in front of dorsal elevated and com- 

 pressed, head short, conical, broad between eyes. The eye is 

 rather large, one fourth length of head, which is contained five 

 times in total length without caudal. The depth of the body 



is contained three and one half times in this length. Caudal 



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peduncle deep, compressed, its least depth equal to one half the 

 length of head; mouth small; the snout somewhat projecting; 

 fins all well developed; the anterior rays of dorsal longest, as 

 long as dorsal base, pectoral or longest anal rays, equaling 

 length of head; caudal forked; scales large, about equal in size 

 all over the body, and finely striated. D. 15; A. 8. Scales 6-46 

 -6; lateral line complete. 



The red horse has the additional names of golden red horse,, 

 golden sucker, mullet, golden mullet, and lake mullet. It in- 

 habits the Great lakes and the region northward, also the Ohio 

 valley. It is common in Lake Erie but not in the Ohio. 



This species grows to a length of 18 inches and is one of the 

 handsomest of the suckers. Prof. Forbes records it from lakes 

 of northern Illinois, also abundantly in the central part of that 

 state. 



Dr Evermann, in collecting fishes of the Lake Ontario region, 

 secured it at the following localities: Lake Ontario, 4 miles off 

 Nine Mile point, N. Y. June 12, 1893 ; lake shore, 3 miles west of 

 Oswego, July 17, 1894; mouth Salmon river, July 25, 1894; Long 

 pond, Charlotte N. Y. Aug. IT, 1894; Sandy creek, North Hamlin 

 N. Y. Aug. 20, 1894. 



Dr Meek identified a single specimen of the so called common 

 red horse of Cayuga lake with Moxostoma macrole- 

 p i d o t u m , and stated, on the authority of Mr Kipp, that it 

 is common at the northern end. Jordan and Evermann, however, 

 do not extend the range ofmacrolepidotum so far north, 

 and it is probable that the common Moxostoma of Cayuga 

 lake is M. a u r e o 1 u m . 



De Kay records the species as very common in Lake Erie. 

 In August and September he observed them to be full of worms. 

 In his yen-. York Fauna, Fishes, p. 198, he describes a sucker or 

 mullet under the name Oneida sucker. This, he stated, is com- 



