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Pickerel (Family Esocidse). 



352. Little Pickerel (Esox vermiculatus, Le S.). 



Barnett's Creek in Trig County. Mayfield 

 Creek, Obion Creek, Bayou de Chien (Woolman). 



353. Mascalonge (Esox nobüior, Thompson). 



"I have seen heads of large pike from several 

 streams in eastern Ohio and northwestern Ken- 

 tucky, said to have weighed from thirty to forty 

 pounds, and there were no specific differences be- 

 tvveen them and those of the mascalonge of the 

 Great Lakes" (Dr. J. A. Henshall). 



Top Minnows (Family Cyprinodontidse) . 



354. Gambusia patruelis, Baird and Girard. 



Western Kentucky. Cumberland River, Obion 

 Creek (Woolman). 



355. Zygonectes notatus, Raf. 



Common throughout most of the State. Tributa- 

 ries of Kentucky River, Green River, Cumberland 

 River. Mayfield Creek, Obion Creek, Bayou de Chien 

 (Woolman). 



356. Fundulus catenatus, Storer. 



Green River, Tennessee River, Tndian Creek, 

 Willis Creek, in Clinton County (Kirsch). Beaver 

 and Otter Creeks in Wayne County (Kirsch). 



Ca ve Fishes (Family Amblyopsidae). 



"Professor Ray Lankester, in a recent lecture at 

 the Royal Institution, thus attempted to account for 

 the absence of eyes in the fishes in the famous Un- 

 derground Kentucky caves in the following way : 

 A great flood carries to the bottom of the Ken- 



