OHIO RIVER FISHES. : 281 
Very little is known regarding the distribution of the Ohio shad. 
All the specimens I have seen were taken at the Falls of the Ohio. 
About March 15, 1898, Mr. Sowders was at Coahoma, Miss., where 
he saw 25 or 30 shad caught. This was in the Mississippi about LO 
miles below Friars Point, Coahoma County, or about 75 miles below 
Memphis. The fishermen said they caught a good many of them, but 
Fic. 5.—Common Shad, Alosa sapidissima (Wilson); male. 
were uncertain what they were. Some called them **skipjack,” but 
believed them different from the common skipjack (/%molobus chryso- 
chlor’s). These fishermen said they had been getting this fish for 
years, but never valued them very highly. They used them chiefly 
for cat-fish bait. The roes of those which Mr. Sowders saw were very 
small. 
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Fic. 6.—Common Shad, Alosa sapidissima (Wilson); female. 
The next place from which this shad has been reported is Flint 
Island, in the Ohio River, a mile below Concordia, Ky., or about 90 
miles below Louisville. Mr. Sowders reports that he got shad there 
in small numbers about April 20, 1897. They were seen at Branden- 
burg, Ky., about 40 miles below Louisville, about the same time. 
Mr. Sowders says he heard of the shad at Vicksburg about 1883, 
and in 1884 in the Ohio at Hickman; also at Aurora, Ind., in 1886 
and subsequently. 
