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a dark lateral baud ; 3 bronze bands radiating from eye across 

 cheeks and opercles ; a dusky spot on point of operculum ; belly 

 white ; caudal fin yellowish at base, then black, with white tips ; 

 dorsal with bronze spots, its edge dusky. In some waters the tin- 

 markings are obsolete, but usually they are very conspicuous in 

 the young. Southern specimens usually have the scales of the 

 lower part of the sides with faint dark streaks ; adult specimens 

 have all these marks more or less wholly obliterated, and become 

 ultimately of a uniform dead-green, without silvery luster. Head 

 3; depth 3J. D. X, 13; A. Ill, 10 or 11 ; Scales 11-74-17. 

 Rivers of the United States, from the Great Lake region to South 

 Carolina and Arkansas ; abundant, frequenting running streams, 

 and preferring clear and cool waters ; its southern limit is bounded 

 by the presence of such waters. As a game-fish this species is 

 usually more highly valued than its congener." (JORDAN and 

 GILBERT, Syn. Fishes N. A. <^Bull U. 8. Nat. Mus., xvi, 485, 

 1882.) 



MICROPTERUS DOLOMIEU Jordan, 1882. (Same description 

 as the preceding one.) (JORDAN, Geol. Surv. Ohio, iv, 948, 

 1882.) 



MICROPTERUS DOLOMIEI Beau, 1883. "This is a beautiful 

 and hardy game fish, extensively taken by artificial as well as 

 natural baits, and largely sold in the markets." (BEAN, Bull. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, 464, 1883.) 



MICROPTERUS DOLOMIEI Goode, 1884. "The small-mouth is 

 found north to latitude 47 and west to Wisconsin, while south- 

 ward it ranges to latitude 33, where Professor Jordan found it 

 in the headwaters of the Chattahoochee and Ocmulgee rivers, the 

 latter being the only instance of its presence in a stream empty- 

 ing east of the Alleghanies into which it is not known to have 

 been introduced by man." (GooDE, Fishery Industries of U. S., 

 sec. i, 401, 1884.)' 



MICROPTERUS DOLOMIEI Forbes, 1884. "Abundant in rivers 

 and larger creeks, but occurring more rarely in lakes, preferring 



