44 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY III. 



Genus AMIURUS Eafinesque. 

 18. AMIURUS BRUNNEUS Jordan. 



This is the most abundant edible fish in the Chattahoochee. We 

 secured upwards of forty large specimens in two hours 7 seining at the 

 Shallow Ford. It grows to the length of about 18 inches, and is much 

 valued as food. It is usually known as the Mud Oat. 



Genus NOTURUS Eafinesque. 



19. jS^OTURUS LEFT ACANTHUS Jordan, 

 yoturus leptacanthus JORDAN (1877), Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y r . 352. 



This species was originally described from a single specimen taken iu 

 Silver Creek, a tributary of the Etowah. A second specimen, similar 

 to the first, was taken by us at the Shallow Ford iluriug the past sum- 

 mer, and since then a third, at the same locality as the first. In color, 

 this species is of a rich pale transparent brown, very slightly mottled 

 with darker. 



LEPIDOSTEIM]. 



Genus LEPIDOSTEUS Lacepede. 



20. LEPIDOSTEUS OSSEUS (L.) Ag. 

 Taken at the Shallow Ford. 



ANGUILL1DJ5. 



Genus ANGUILLA Thunberg. 



21. ANGUILLA VULGARIS Fleming. 

 Eels, of course, abound in the Chattahoochee. 



V. WATER BASIN OF THE ALABAMA R1YER. 



The fish-fauna of the Alabama Eiver is now better known than that 

 of any other of the Southern streams. Fifty -five species are now known 

 as inhabitants of that river and of its great tributaries, the Etowah, 

 Oostanaula, and Coosa. A slight examination of any suitable tributary 

 of the Alabama is sufficient to show that it is much richer in species 

 than are any of the rivers lying to the eastward of it. 



Of these fifty-six species, thirteen are as yet only known from the 



