238 ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF FRESH-WATER FISHES 



CYPRINOD ONTIDJE. 



FUNDULUS Lac. 



FUNDULUS CATEiSTATus Storer. 

 Giinther, Catal. Brit. Mus. vi, 322. 



This species is abundant in some tributaries of the Holston, and reaches a length 

 of five inches. In life it is of a light steel-blue, each scale with a longitudinal 

 ochraceous band ; fins spotted with ochre. 



ESOCID^. 



ESOX Linn. 

 Species of this genus occur in the head-waters of the Roanoke and James, but the 

 fishermen did not know them from either the Kanawha or Holston. 



SALMONW^. 



SALMO Linn. 



Salmo fontinalis Mitchell. 

 The trout occurs only in the mountain streams that flow from the high ranges of 

 the back-bone of the Allegheny, — the Salt Pond, Big, and Peters Mountains, where it 

 is quite abundant. I did not hear of it in the more eastern range of the Poplar Canijj 

 Mountain, nor elsewhere northward of the Tennessee line. It is here not uncommon 

 in the streams that flow from the White Top, on the point of junction of North 

 Carolina, and from the adjacent Balsam Mountain. These I did not see, but they 

 were so described as to render it probable that they are of this species, but of small 

 size. This point is no doubt near the southern extreme of its range. 



ANGUILLIDJE. 

 ANGUILLA L. 



A species of this genus occurs in the Kanawha, but not commonly. Some skins 

 seen. None in the Holston. 



My friend 0. H, Bryan informs me that, on the appi'oach of winter^ the eels bury 

 themselves in the mud in great numbers, at a depth of about a foot. In suitable 

 localities in the Potomac, fifteen miles below Washington, they may be procured 

 during this season in numbers, with gigs. 



LEPID0STEID2E. 



Lepidosteus huronensis Richardson. 

 A head of a car from the Holston, at Saltville, is identical with that of this 



