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ventrals reaching to vent; caudal fin long. Coloration dark 

 steel blue above; pale or silvery below; a more or less evident 

 black spot at base of dorsal in front; the fins otherwise all plain. 

 Males with the anterior dorsal region and the head profusely 

 covered with small whitish tubercles, the belly and lower fins 

 being of a bright brick red in the spring. Females very pale 

 olive, sometimes almost colorless. Length 3^ inches. Minne- 

 sota to western New York (Cayuga lake), North Carolina, Ala- 

 bama, and Kansas; generally abundant in small, clear streams. 

 (After Jordan and Evermann) 



Dr Meek took a single specimen from a small stream near 

 the Montezuma dry dock. 



Genus rhinichthys Agassiz 



Body moderately elongate and little compressed, with usually 

 stout caudal peduncle and long, conical nose; head rather large, 

 sometimes broad and flat above; eye small; mouth small, sub- 

 inferior, the upper jaw fixed by the union of the upper lip to 

 the skin of the forehead; end of maxillary with a small barbel. 

 Teeth 2, 4-4, 2 (sometimes 2, 4-4, 1) those of the principal row 

 usually hooked, without grinding surface. A short intestinal 

 canal; scales very small; lateral line decurved, continuous; 

 dorsal origin slightly behind ventral; base of anal short. Small 

 fishes inhabiting clear, cold brooks and streams. 



92 Rhinichthys cataractae (Cuv. & Val.) 



Long Nosed Dace; Niagara Gudgeon 



Qohio cataractae CfuviEB & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XVI, 315, 



pi. 483 (poor), 1842 (specimen 5 inches long, from Niagara Falls, N. "S., 



Milbert); De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 394; 1842. (After Cuvier and 



Valenciennes) 

 I.vucmus iiasutuft Ayrks, Best. Jour. Nat. Hist. IV, 299, pi. XIII, fig. 3 



(very bad), 1844. West Hartford, Conn. Specimen 5^4 inches long. 

 nhiuichthys marmoratus Agassiz, LaJie Superior, 354, pi. 2, figs. 1-2, 1850; 



GuNTHEK. Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. VII, 189. 1868. 

 Rhinichthys vaftulus GxJntiier, op. cit. VII, 189. 

 Argyreus nasutus Cope, Cypr. Penna. 369, pi. XII, fig. 5, 1866. 

 Ceratirhthys cataractae Gunther, op. cit. VII, 176, 1878. 

 Rhinichthys cataractae Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 207. 



1883; Bean, Fishes Penna. 46, 1898; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, 



U. S. Nat. Mus. 306, 1896. 



