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[<?/] A large species reaching 5 and 6 feet in length. 

 It appears in June and disappears in November, but 

 is seldom caught, except in the fall, when attempting 

 to go down the river. It is sometimes caught in the 

 Kentucky as late as November. It affords a toler- 

 ably good food. Snout very short yet somewhat 

 attenuated, barbs brown, eyes nearly round, head 

 with a depression above, lips very thick. Scales 

 radiated knobby behind. Pectoral and anal fin some- 

 what oboval, the abdominal and dorsal trapezoidal. 



99th Species. Ohio Sturgeon. Accipenser ohiensis. 

 Eturgeon de l'Ohio. 



Head conical one fifth of total length, snout slop- 

 ing short nearly acute, eyes round. Body cylin- 

 drical rough olivaceous, fulvous, belly white. Tail 

 short lunulate falcate. Dorsal scales 14 carinated, 

 the lateral rows with 34 dimidiated and un[e]qual. 



Somewhat similar to the foregoing. Length from 

 three to four feet. Found as far as Pittsburgh, comes 

 in the spring, and goes away in September. Head 

 convex above, with a protuberance on the top. All 

 the fins trapezoidal but somewhat falcate. The tail 

 remarkably so, and obliquely lunulate, the lobes not 

 divided by a notch as usual in the other species. It 

 has been [III. 249] mentioned by Lesueur as a 

 variety of his A . rubicundus, page 390 of the Trans. 

 Am. Phil. Society, but it differs widely from it. 



100th Species. Bigmouth Sturgeon. Accipenser 

 macrostomus . Eturgeon beant. 



Head one fourth of total length, snout elongated, 

 somewhat flattened, eyes round. Body cylindrical 

 deep brown above, white beneath. Tail elongated ; 

 about 20 dorsal scales, several between the dorsal 

 and anal fin, about 30 scales in each lateral row. 



