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berland River, Tennessee River, Bayou de Chien 

 (Woolman). 



394. JSfotropis ddiciosus, Girard. 



Occurs throughout the State. Big Sandy River, 

 Kentucky River, Green River, Cumberland River, 

 Tennessee River. 



395. Notropis spedrunculus, Cope. 



Cumberland River, Kentucky River. 



396. Motropis heierodon, Cope. 



Canada Creek, Wayne County, two small spec- 

 imens (Kirsch). Jordan took in 1883 in Wolf 

 County and Clear Fork, Whitley County, several 

 specimens of a fish which he named Hemitremia 

 vitlala, Cope, but subsequently decided that the 

 latter name was a synonym of the above. 



397. Bull-headed Minnow (Cliola vigüax, Baird and 



Girard). 



Kentucky River, common; Big Sandy River, 

 Cumberland River. 



398. JPimephales notalus, Raf. 



Occurs everywhere in the State. Big Sandy 

 River, Green River, Rockcastle River, Cumberland 

 River, Tennessee River, Bayou de Chien. 



399. Pimephales promelas, Raf. 



Tributaries of the Kentucky River, common 

 locally. This small minnow was describcd by the 

 eccentric Rafinesque, once connected with the old 

 Transylvania University, from a single specimen 

 said to have been obtained from Mr. W. M. ClifFord 

 of Lexington, Kentucky, in 1820. The species is 

 especially common in the North Elkhorn at Bry- 

 ant Station, about six miles north of Lexington. 

 A few specimens have been taken in the Kentucky 

 River at Clay's Ferry. 



