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XIX. — Notes on a Collection of Fishes from the Monongahela 



River. 



BY BARTON W. EVEKMANN AND CHARLES H. BOLLMAN. 

 Read April 12, 1886. 



During July and August, 1885, Mr. Bollman made a small 

 collection of fishes in the Monongahela River and a few small 

 creeks flowing into it. The bulk of the collection was made in 

 the Monongahela at Monongahela City, at Lock Number Nine, 

 on that river, near where it enters the State of Pennsylvania 

 from West Virginia, and in a little stream called Pigeon Creek, 

 which flows into the river near Monongahela City. As the col- 

 lecting was done with a small twelve-foot seine, the smaller or 

 more common shallow-water species constitute the chief part of 

 the collection. 



The common names given are those in local use. The num- 

 bers in parentheses refer to Dr. Jordan's Catalogue of North 

 American Fishes.* All the specimens of this collection are now 

 in the museum of the Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. 



1. Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus). (107.) 



Gar Pike. 

 Abundant at Lock No. 9. 



2. Noturtjs flavus Rafinesque. (119.) 



Found to be common in Pigeon Creek. 



3. Ictai/ukus punctatits (Rafinesque). (134.) 



Channel Cat. 

 One specimen taken at Lock No. 9 ; very common in the river at 

 Monongahela City. 



* A Catalogue of the Fishes known to inhabit the waters of North Amer- 

 ica, North of the Tropic of Cancer, with notes on the species discovered in 

 1883 and 1884. By David Starr Jordan, Washington. 



