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In New York Mitcliill had it from the Wallkill; Rafiuesque 

 from the Hudson above the falls. De Kay knew it from the 

 Mohawk and some of its tributaries including the Chittenonda. 

 Dr Meek found it ver^ common throughout the entire Cayuga 

 lake basin. Evermann and Bean collected it in the Saranac 

 river, Plattsburg, July 28, and in Scioto creek, Coopersville, 

 July 19, 1894. They secured it also in the St Lawrence river, 

 3 miles below Ogdensburg, July 17, 1894. The U. S. Fish Commis- 

 sion field parties found it very common in the Lake Ontario 

 basin 1892 to 1894, specimens having been recorded from: Sacket 

 Harbor, Charlotte, Huntingtonville, Henderson Harbor, Cape 

 Vincent, Pulaski, Oswego, Pultneyville, Pointbreeze, Webster, 

 Belleville, Scriba Corners, Wart creek, North Hamlin and Salt 

 brook. 



The redfin runs into small brooks and is most abundant in 



eddies and other quiet parts of the streams. It has no value 



except as food and bait for larger fishes, specially the black bass 



and pike perch. The flesh is very soft and decays rapidly after 



death. 



87 Notropis cornutus frontalis (Agassiz) 



Leiicisciis frontalis Agassiz, Lake Superior, 368, pi. 3, fig. 4, 1850, or Hyp- 



solepis frontalis fide Gunthee. 

 Hypsilepis cornutus giJ)T)us Cope, Proe. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 158, 1867. 

 Minnilus cornutus var. frontalis Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. 



Mus. 187, 1683. 

 Notropis megalops frontalis Meek, Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci. IV, 307, 1888. 

 Notropis cornutus frontalis Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



283, 1896. 



Very close to the typical cornutus, differing in its very 

 heavy head and in the smaller number of scales (13 to 18) in 

 advance of the dorsal. Great lakes; everywhere common in 

 mouths of brooks. Dr Meek found it scarce near Ithaca and 

 common near Montezuma N. Y. 



Subgenus notropis 

 88 Notropis atherinoides Rafiuesque 

 Emerald Minnoto; Rosy Minnow 



Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, Amer. Month. Mag. II, 204, Jan. 1818. 

 Alhurnus rubeUus Agassiz, Lake Superior, 364, pi. 3, figs. 1-3, 1850, 

 Leuciscus rubellus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus, VII, 254, 1868, 



