THE FISH FAUNA OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



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regions" appearing in the Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission for 1888, the 

 new forms having previously been described in the Proceedings of the U. S. 

 National Museum for the same year. The North Carolina streams visited in the 

 course of these explorations were the headwaters of the Pamlico, Neuse, Cape 

 Fear, Great Pedee, Santee, and French Broad rivers. 



The fishes of the Albemarle Sound section were considered in a paper by the 

 present writer, "Notes on a collection of fishes from the Albemarle region of 

 North Carolina", in the Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission for 1891. 



A paper dealing with "The fishes of the Neuse River basin", by Evermann 

 and Cox, was published in the Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission for 1895; 

 this paper, while based on a small collection made by the Messrs. Brimley near 

 Raleigh, gives a complete list of the fishes recorded from the Neuse and cites 

 all the published references to the fishes of that stream. 



The fishes of Lake Mattamuskeet were collected for the U. S. Bureau of 

 Fisheries by Dr. John D. Miljigan, of the steamer Fish-Hawk, in the winter of 

 1899-1900, and a brief account thereof was published by the author in the 

 Report of the U. S. Fish Commissioner for 1900. 



In 1903 Mr. Barton A. Bean published a "Notice of a collection of fishes 

 made by H. H. Brimley in Cane River and Boilings Creek, North Carolina, 

 with a description of a new species of Notropis {N. brimleyi) ", this section being 

 one whose fishes were but little known. 



Various collections from the fresh waters of North Carolina have from time 

 to time reached the U. S. National Museum and the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, and 

 have been duly considered in the present connection. Collections of the National 

 Museum on which no special reports have been published were made by J. W. 

 Milner on Albemarle Sound, Neuse and Tar rivers in 1878; Spencer F. Baird at 

 Wilmington in 1877; W. R. Capehart on Albemarle Sound in 1877 to 1881; 

 Marshall McDonald on the Neuse and Cape Fear rivers in 1880; S. G. Worth on 

 the Swannanoa River in 1880; P. L. Jouy on Richland Creek, tributary of the 

 Big Pigeon River, in 1890; and W. P. Seal at Wilmington in 1899. Fresh-water 

 fishes received by the Bureau of Fisheries have included small collections by 

 W. C. Kendall in Albemarle Sound in 1897; by W. P. Seal in the vicinity of 

 Wilmington in 1906; and by D. P. Cabe from Middle Creek, tributary of the 

 Little Tennessee River in Macon County, in 1904, these being the only available 

 specimens from that part of the state. Still further information concerning the 

 fresh-water fishes has been obtained from detailed manuscript notes of Dr. 

 W. C. Kendall on the Albemarle region in April and May, 1897, and from 

 numerous visits of the writer to various parts of the state, including the Dismal 

 Swamp, Albemarle Sound, and Pasquotank, Chowan, Roanoke, Tar, and Neuse 

 rivers. 



A good idea of the fish life of Lake Ellis and the adjacent lakes in Craven and 

 Jones counties has been communicated by Mr. C. S. Brimley, who made obser- 

 vations and collections in 1905 and 1906, the specimens being deposited in the 

 State Museum. 



