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GD Semotilus bullaris (Kafinesquo) 

 Full fish: Wind Fish : Itdoc; Chirin; I^Urcr Chub 



Cy^lji-iinix hiilhui.s Kafinesquk. Amer. Month. Mag. II. 12>, Dec. 1817. 

 ('Ifliriiiiis corponilis MrTCiiiLi,. Amer. Month. Mag'. II. :?24, Mar. 1818. 



I'revious notice in same Avork, vt)l. I. 289. .Tuly. 1817, insufficient to 



liokl name. The Corporaalen of the Dutch, moreover, Avas tlie striped 



species, (itromacttlatux. 

 Kduofiliis hiilhnis .Iordan. Man. A'ert. ed. 1, 187(>; Jordan & Gilbert, 



liiill. li;. r. S. Nat. :Mus. 222, I888; Beax, toshes Penna. 50, pi. 24, fig:. 



41. 18<K{; (JooDE. Fish. A: Fisli. lad. V. S. pi. 228. upper figm-e, 1884. 

 Leucisciis nitiihis DeKay. X. Y. Fauna. Fishes, 2(H>. pi. :. tig. 10"). 1842. 



Lake Champlain. 

 Lciiciscus (hr!/s(fptcrii.'< De Kay", N. Y. Fauna. Fishes. 211. pi. ;^(>, tig. tt." 



(poor), 1842, harbor of New York. 

 SlmiotiliiN (nrixinilis .Touhax & Ftermanx, Bull. 47, V. S. Xat. JNIus. 221. 



18!>(;. 



The falltisli has a iitodci-atcly dccj). elongate and conipressed 

 body and a stent candal pednnele. The greatest depth is one 

 foni'ih of llic lolal lengtli Avitliont candal, and the least depth 

 of the peduncle ('(juals three eighths of length of head. The 

 head is rather large, one fourth of total without candal. with 

 pointed snont. which is two sevenths of the head's length. The 

 month is obliqne; Ihe jaws nearly eqnal, the maxilla extending 

 to below fi-ont of eye. The eye is placed high and is abont one 

 fourth as long as the head. The dorsal origin is over the 16th 

 or ITlli scale of the lateial line; the base of the tin is one half, 

 and the longest lay two thirds as long as the head. The ventral 

 origin is under the IHlh scale of the lateral line; the tin does not 

 i-e;i(|i Id tlic \ciit. its length one seventh of total without candal. 

 The :iiial origin is under the 27t h scale of the lateral line; the 

 base (if Ihe tin is one thii-d as long as the head, and the longest 

 \-:\\ is as long ;is the \('u1ral. The candal is large and deeply 

 forked. The latei-al line ( iir\-es downward abrn])tly ovei' Ihe 

 peitoial, heiuniing median ovei- the eml of that fin. I >. ii, 7; 

 \. ii. 7: \'. S; !. is. Scales 7 4(1 5; teeth 2, 54, 2 or 2, 4 

 1, -. all niui-e (If less strongly hooke<l. in spirits tlie ni]>ei- parts 

 ;iri- grayish iiniwii, the sides and cheeks silvery, the lowei- ])arts 

 "liitish. I he liiis all |i:ile. In life the upper parts are steel bine, 

 the sides and belly silvery; breeding males in sjiring have the 



