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" A Descriptive List of the Fishes of Big Jelloway Creek, Knox 

 Comity, Ohio." Many color descriptions of species in high 

 breeding coloration are given, and some interesting breeding and 

 occurrence notes. 



Prof. E. B. Williamson has kindly furnished the author with 

 an unpublished list of twenty-six species taken by him in the 

 vicinity of Salem, Columbiana County. 



During the summers of 1899 and 1900, aided by a portion of 

 the Emerson McMilliu fund of the Ohio Academy of Science, the 

 writer was enabled to investigate some parts of the state not 

 before studied, and, as the general distribution of the food fishes 

 was already quite well known, attention was turned more directly 

 to the smaller and less conspicuous species. As a result of the 

 investigation, several species not previously noted have been 

 added to the list for the state, and a number of rare species 

 recorded for new localities and their range extended, while the 

 knowledge of the distribution of many of the more common 

 species in the state has been considerably furthered. Ten days- 

 spent in the vicinity of Ironton, seining in the Ohio River and 

 Ice Creek, a small tributary of the Ohio, and in Johns Creek, a 

 tributary of Symmes Creek, gave some interesting results. The 

 Ohio River, with its tributaries, Wheeling Creek and McMahon 

 Creek, was also seined in the vicinity of Bellaire. The shallow 

 waters of Sandusky Bay were hauled in many places and Notropis 

 heterodon was added to the state list. The Huron River, with 

 one of its small tributaries, was seined in the vicinity of Milan, 

 and fifty species, nearly all common, were taken. Ashtabula 

 Creek, in Ashtabula County, was seined, but yielded only a 

 meager list, due to the fact that the stream flows for nearly its 

 whole course over a solid shale bottom. The small streams form- 

 ing the headwaters of the Wabash River, in Mercer County, 

 yielded a good representative list, forty-nine species being taken. 

 Stillwater and Wolf Creeks, tributaries of the Miami, near Day- 

 ton, were hauled, and Exoglossitm maxillingua taken — a most 

 unexpected find. The Cuyahoga River and its tributary, Break- 

 neck Creek, were seined near Kent, and the Cuyahoga again at 

 Hawkins ; Grand River, with its small tributaries, was hauled 

 for some distance above Painesville, and the Chagrin River was 



