NORTH AMERICAN FRESH-WATER FISHES. fi 
CYPRINIDZ. Purate 1. 
NOTROPIS MEGALOPS (Rafinesque). 
HYPSOLEPIS PLARGYRUS. Baird. 
The Common Shiner; Red-fin; Roach. 
(Female. ) 
1. Side view of skull. 
2. View of skull from above. 
3. View of skull from below. 
4, View of skull from behind. 
5. Lower pharyngeals with teeth. 
6. Right lower pharyngeal bone. 
7. Outline of section of body at dorsal fin. 
8. Scale from the lateral line. 
9. Scale from above lateral line. 
10. Scale from below lateral line. 
11. Young example. 
12. Outline of adult seen from above. 
13. Female example, nearly adult. 
The Shiner is one of our commonest brook fishes, its range extending from 
Maine to Dakota, and southward to North Carolina, Georgia, and Arkansas. It 
is of no value as food, though it furnishes a large share of the subsistence of 
predatory fishes, like the Black Bass and Perch. 
