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The silverfin ranges from western New York to Virginia and 

 west to Minnesota and Arkansas. It is a common and variable 

 species. It reaches a length of 4 inches. In Pennsylvania it 

 occurs in all the rivers and creeks, but according to Prof. Cope 

 is least common in tributaries of the Delaware. 



According to Dr Meek it is common on flats near Fall creek 

 and in the southern end of Cayuga lake. Evermann and Bean 

 took it in Scioto creek, Coopersville N. Y. in July 1894. In the 

 Lake Ontario region the U. S. Fish Commission secured the 

 following specimens: 



Grenadier island June 27, 1894 



Horse island, Sacketts Harbor June 30, 1894 



Cape Vincent June 21, 1894 



Mill creek, Sacket Harbor July 2, 1894 



Cemetery creek and Black river, Watertown July 5, 1894 



Chaumont river July 10, 1894 



Great Sodus bay Aug. 6, 1894 



Creek near Pultneyville Aug. 7, 1894 



Specimens were obtained also by Livingston Stone at Cape 

 Vincent Aug. 9, 1898, and presented to the State Museum. 



Subgenus L.UXIL.US Rafinesque 

 86 Notropis cornutus (Mitchill) 

 Shiner; Redfin 



Cyprinus cornutus MITCHELL, Amer. Month. Mag. I, 289, July, 1817. 



(meager preliminary notice) ; op. cit. II, 324, Feb. 1818. (Wallkill river, 



N. Y.) 

 Cyprinus megalops RAFINESQUE, Amer. Month. Mag. II, 121, Dec. 1817. 



(Hudson river, above the falls) 

 Leuciscus vittatus DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 212, pi. 34, fig. 108, 1842. 



(Ohittenonda and other tributaries of the Mohawk; also in Mohawk) 

 Hy-psilepis cornutus COPE, Proc. Ac. Nat Sci. Phila. 158, 1867. 

 Leuciscus cornutus DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 207, pi. 29, fig. 92, 1842; 



GUNTHER, Cat Fish. Brit. Mus. VII, 249, 1868. 



Minnilus cornutus JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 186, 1883. 

 Minnilus plumbeolus JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat Mus. 192, 



1883. 

 Notropis megalops JORDAN, Cat Fish. N. A. 26, 1885; BEAN, Fishes Penna. 



40, 1893. , 

 Notropis cornutus JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat Mus. 281, 1896. 



