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erate terminal, slightly oblique, jaws nearly equal. The caudal is large 

 and moderately forked. The lateral line curves downward over the pec- 

 toral. Scales 6-38 to 41-4; teeth, i, 4-4, i. D., 8; A., 9; V., 8; P., 14. 



Colour, bluish silvery ; scales dusky edged ; a dark vertebral line ; a 

 narrow and long black blotch on the membrane of the dorsal between the 

 sixth and seventh and another between the seventh and eighth rays. 

 Lower fins pale. Males in spring have the fins partly or wholly charged 

 with white pigment and in the height of the breeding season the pig'ment 

 in the dorsal has a greenish tint and the top of the head and snout is cov- 

 ered with minute tubercles. 



Length, about four inches. 



It is found in the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes region. 



Sl'bgenus LLIXILUS. 



(44) Shiner. Redfin. Dace. 



(Notropis cornutus.) 



When young the body is moderately elongate, but it becomes deeper 

 with age and much compressed ; caudal peduncle short. Head short, deep 

 and thin; mouth moderate, terminal, little oblique, lower jaw included; 

 eye moderate ; the lateral line descends in a long curve, becoming straight 

 and median over the anal origin ; caudal large and deeply forked. Scales, 

 7-40 to 41-4. Teeth, 2, 4-4, 2, with narrow grinding surface. 



D., 8; A., 9; v., 8; P., 15. 



Colour, upper parts steel blue with a gilt Ime along the back ; scales 

 dusky at edge and base. The sides are bright silvery overlaid with a gilt 

 line. In spring males the belly and lower fins are bright rosy and the head 

 and nape covered with small tubercles. It attains a length of about eight 

 inches; under favourable circumstances perhaps a little more. 



This handsome fish is abundant in all streams of any size throughout 

 the Province, particularly so in those where rapids alternate with deep 

 pools and eddies. 



It spawns in early summer on stony shallows. 



As a food fish it is of no value, its flesh being soft and tasteless, but 

 it is unexcelled as bait for Maskinonge, Bass, etc. 



N. c. frontalis is the form commonly found in the lakes. 



Subgenus NOTROPIS. 

 (45) Notropis jejunus. 



Head four; depth, four and two-thirds ; eye rather large. Body rather 

 slender; head flattish above, the snout blunted and rounded; mouth rather 

 large, oblique. 



Dorsal over ventrals ; 16 scales before dorsal. 



D., 8; A., 7; scales, 5-37-3; teeth, 2, 4-4, i. 



Colour pale with a broad silvery lateral band overlying a plumbeous 

 shade; dorsal sometimes punctulate. Length, three inches. 



