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due time the anglers l)egan to report the capture of tiue speci- 

 mens of a catfish that they were not familiar with, and three or 

 four years hiter they ])egan to catch another species of catlisli 

 also strange to them, and when we secured specimens it was 

 found that they helonged to a species of which we had no rec- 

 ord of introducing. So that the prohahility is that there were 

 young fork-tail cats with the spotted cats. Xow these fish are 

 caught in large nund)ers by anglers above and below Washington, 

 but more particularly in the swifter part of the river above the 

 city, and I believe I am safe in saying that there are few fishes 

 known to the sportsman of this vicinity which are more pojjuiar 

 than those big cats from the Mississippi basin. They take the 

 artificial fly almost as readily as the black bass, and as a food 

 fish they have few superiors. 



