FISHES 
12. Butterfish. Golden Shiner. Abramis  cryso- 
leucas (Mitchill)—Common in the quiet, weedy 
waters of Toronto and Ashbridge’s Bay. Its flesh is 
edible, but soft and weedy-flavored. Spawns in 
early summer. ; 
13. Shiner. Redfin. Dace. Notropis cornutus 
(Mitchill).—This handsome fish is abundant in all 
streams of any size, particularly so in those where 
rapids alternate with deep pools and eddies. It 
spawns in early summer on stony shallows. As a 
food fish it is of no value, its flesh being soft and 
tasteless, but it is unexcelled as bait for Maskinonge, 
Bass, ete. 
14. Notropis atherinoides (Rafinesque).- 
15. Long-nosed Dace. Niagara Gudgeon. Rhi- 
nichthys cataractae (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 
Abundant in the rapid streams. 
16. Black-nosed Dace. Rhinichthys atronasus 
(Mitchill) —Very common in all streams. 
17. Lake Chub. Couwesius plumbeus (Agassiz). 
—Occurs in Lake Ontario, but is not common in this 
locality. 
18. Carp. Cyprinus carpio (Linnaeus) (Intro- 
duced).—There are three varieties of this species, 
the German or Scale Carp, the Mirror Carp, and the 
Leather Carp, the distinction between them being 
based upon the scale arrangement. The Leather 
Carp is nearly without scales. The Mirror has a 
few scales of unequal size, irregularly placed; while 
the German variety has the body completely covered 
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