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Dr Meek found the species very abundant throughout the 

 entire Cayuga lake basin. Dr Evermann and Barton A. Bean 

 obtained the following specimens in the St Lawrence river basin 

 in 1894. 



1, St Lawrence river, Cape Vincent N. Y. June 21. 



3, Racket river, Norfolk N. Y. July 18. 



Dr Evermann also collected specimens at the following 

 localities of the Lake Ontario region in 1894. 



Stony creek, Henderson Harbor, July 3, 4 



Black river, Huntingtonville, July 5 



Mud creek. Cape Vincent, June 25 



Mouth Salmon river, July 25 



Chaumont river, July 10 



Creek, Pultneyville, Aug. 7 



Mouth Little Salmon creek, July 25 



Sandy creek^ North Hamlin, Aug. 20 



Long pond, near Charlotte, Aug. 17 



Stony Island, July 2, 3 



Lakeview hotel, 7 m. n. e. of Oswego, July 17 



Marsh creek, Pointbreeze, Aug. 21 



49 Ameiurus nebulosus marmoratus (Holbrook) 



Marhled Cat 



Pimelodus marmoratus Holbeook, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 54, 1855, 

 Amiurus marmoratus Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 104, 1883. 

 Ameiurus nehulosus marmoratus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. 141, 1896. 



Body moderately elongate, its depth about one fourth total 

 length to caudal base; slope of profile very steep; jaws equal or 

 subequal; dorsal fin high, its spine more than one half as long 

 as head, and nearer to adipose fin than to tip of snout; head 

 long, three and one fourth times in total length to caudal base; 

 barbels long; anal rays 21; body much mottled with brown, 

 greenish and whitish. Lowland streams and swamps from New 

 York to southern Indiana and Florida. The type of the mar- 

 moratus of Holbrook was from South Carolina. 



