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mon in Oneida lake. The species is considered identical with 

 Moxostoma aureolum. His description shows a very 

 close agreement with that of aureolum given above. 



The food of the red horse consists chiefly of mollusks and in- 

 sects. It is not a choice food fish. 



Eugene Smith 1 records this form as occurring in the vicinity 

 of New York city. Mention has already been made of the doubt 

 concerning the northern limits of the range of macrole- 

 p i d o t u m ; but for the sake of comparison the brief descrip- 

 tion of macrolepidotum published by Jordan and Ever- 

 mann is given herewith. 



Head moderate, rather stout, its length four and three fifths 

 in body; eye one and two thirds in snout; dorsal fin with its free 

 edge concave; scales usually with dusky shade at base; lower 

 fins pale. Streams about Chesapeake and Delaware bays, and 

 southward to North Carolina. It seems in some respects inter- 

 mediate between M. aureolum and M. crassilabre, 

 but we can not at present identify it with either. 



Family 



Carps 

 Genus CAMPOSTOMA Agassiz 



Body moderately elongate, little compressed; mouth normal, 

 the jaws with thick lips and rudiment of a hard sheath; pre- 

 maxillaries protractile; no barbel; teeth 4-4, or 1, 4-4, 0, with ob- 

 lique grinding surface, and a slight hook on one or two teeth; 

 air bladder suspended in the abdominal cavity and entirely sur- 

 rounded by many convolutions of the long alimentary canal, 

 which is six to nine times the total length of the body; ovaries 

 similarly enclosed by the alimentary canal; peritoneum black; 

 pseudobranchiae present; scales moderate; lateral line present; 

 dorsal nearly over ventrals; anal short; no spines. Herbivo- 

 rous. Sexual differences very great, the males being covered 

 with large tubercles in spring. The singular arrangement of 

 the intestines in relation to the air bladder is peculiar to C a m - 

 p o s t o m a among all known fishes. (After Jordan and Ever- 

 mann) 



. Soc. N. Y. Proc. 1897. no. 9, p. 14. 



