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is distinguished by its thick jaw and nearly plain coloration. In 

 the male the spinous dorsal is one half as high as the soft 

 dorsal. The female has higher spines than the male; the spines 

 have fleshy tips. No scales on nape, head and breast. A large 

 black humeral scale. The length of the head equals one fourth 

 of the total length without caudal, and the depth one fifth. D. 

 VIII, 12; A. II, 8. Scales 7-50-7. The lateral line ends at the 

 middle of the length. 



The general color is olivaceous, the upper parts dusky; the 

 sides with dark streaks formed by the spots at the base of the 

 scales. The males have dusky crossbars; the soft dorsal and 

 <iaudal barred. The spinous dorsal of the male has an orange 

 margin. / 



The fantail darter is found from western New York to North 

 ^Carolina, and in the Ohio valley. In the Lake Ontario region 

 the U. S. Fish Commission collectors obtained it from the follow- 

 ing places in 1893: 



Salt brook, 1-J miles above Nine Mile point June 11 

 Orenadier island , June 28 and 29 



Horse island, Sackett's Harbor June 30 



Mill creek July 2 



Little Stony brook, Henderson bay July 4 



Cemetery creek, Watertown July 5 



Chaumont river July 10 



Big Sandy creek, Belleville July 12 



Wart creek . July 24 



Spring brook, Pulaski July 24 



Three Mile creek, Oswego July 27 



Great Sodus bay Aug. 6 



Four Mile creek. Nine Mile point, Webster Aug. 9 



Sandy creek, North Hamlin Aug. 20 



Marsh creek. Point Breeze Aug. 21 



Writing of the fishes of Cayuga lake basin, Dr Meek makes 

 the statement that the fantail darter is found with the 

 tessellated darter at each end of Cayuga lake; that these two 



