Aso 
VOR $& = i á * : 4 
= S À , t 
t 24 ~ Fishes of the Ohio i 
wards the eyes, towards ihe silos 3 in front of the preopercu- ` 
1 lum, across the neck, extends on each side of the back, begin- 
ning to decline a little in front of the dorsal fin, and terminates | 
at the tail. In its whole length are to be seen minute ramifi-- 
straight and curved, more or E distant from each 
"Length from the end of the at to that Of the tail three 
. feet ten inches... Snout, from its extremity to the p twelve — 
i inches hw and three inches wide. | 
| P. 26; D. 58; V. 40—50; A. 56; C. uma : 
: Dr s sicot was mm up jum a pe Res 4 
men, the colors are not portrayed. We copy therefore the — 
` following from the Appendix to Major Long’s expedition to — 
sthe ‘source of St. Peter's River, &c., ronan by Mr. Say. 1 
Credo is from life. 
lor above livid brown, imas ito body, but. with d 
j| k h spots placed in circles or ovals on the head " 
as dne as the gill opening, on the upper part and sides o 4 
st about the eyes and on the unwrinkled part of we ! 
wegill-ec ver ; ^ ig the upper jaw, and on the wrinkled part of 
" wu with abbreviated lines of small blackish spots; | 
. «belly white, with a few spots on the middle ; ; fi : 
ns dusky, pec- | 
torals and ventrals white before and. behind; gill-covers capa- 
or broadly united beneath, and each iad. tapering 
to a somewhat obtuse point, which nearly attains to 1e 
E line of the anterior origin of the ventral fins; on the up 
Ese 
beneath the termination of the d i 
endo four | feet eight i ; 
