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body; teeth 4-4, often crenate. Body moderately stout, the 

 back somewhat elevated; head rather pointed, the muzzle 

 acuminate; mouth oblique, lower jaw projecting, upper lip oppo- 

 site upper rim of pupil; maxillary extending to opposite front 

 of orbit; 13 scales in front of dorsal; lateral line usually more 

 or less imperfect. Color olivaceous; chin black; a blackish 

 rostral band; sides with a leaden or dusky band. Length 2^ 

 inches. New York to Michigan and Kansas, common. Va- 

 riable. (After Jordan and Evermann) 



Common in all the sluggish water on the flats near Ithaca. 

 Not found at the north end of the lake, where it seems to be re- 

 placed by Notropis anogenus. Meeic 



The U. S. Fish Commission collectors have obtained it at Cape 

 Vincent N. Y. June 21, Stony Island, July 2 and 3, and at Guffon 

 creek, Chaumont, July 7, 1894. 



81 Notropis blennius (Girard) 



Straw-colored Minnow 



Alburnops blennius Girard, Proc Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 194, 1856. Pacific 



R. R. Surv. X, 261, pi. 57, figs. 13-16, 1858. 

 Minnilus blennius Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 193, 1883. 

 Notropis blennius Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. A. 24, 1885; Jordan & Evermann, 



Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 261, 1896. 



Body slender, elongate, its greatest depth one fifth of total 

 length without caudal; head rather large, one fourth of total 

 length without caudal; the eye large, a little longer than snout, 

 one third as long as the head; mouth small, inferior, horizontal, 

 the maxilla reaching to front of orbit; snout very obtuse; dorsal 

 a little nearer to tip of snout than to base of caudal, its origin 

 about over end of pectoral, its longest ray three fourths as 

 long as the head; teeth 4-4; 13 to 15 rows of scales before 

 dorsal. The ventral is under the base of the dorsal, its length 

 equal to length of head without snout. D. 8 to 9; A. 7 to 8. 

 Scales 5 to 6-32 to 38-4. 



Color pale olivaceous; sides usually pale; usually a darker 

 dorsal band and a small dark blotch before dorsal, sometimes a 

 plumbeous lateral stripe but no caudal spot; fins all plain. 

 Length 2 to 2i inches. 



