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125. Ameiurus lacustris Walbaum. 

 Lake Catfish. 



Lacustrine and fluviatile. 



St. Lawrence river and tributaries, and Great Lakes region westward to the Prairie Prov- 

 inces: Hudson Bay (Pennant, 1788, as the mathemeg; and Walbaum, 1792, as Gadus 

 lacustris) : in the United States, ranging from the Great Lakes possibly to the Mississippi 

 valley, but the limits of its southern habitat uncertain.* 



126. Ameiurus natalis Le Sueur. 

 Yellow Catfish. 

 Lacustrine and fluviatile. 



Great Lakes region: recorded from Sugarbush, Bevin, and Bark Lakes, Province of Quebec 

 (D'Urban, 1859, as Pimelodus coenosus) : extends southward to the southern United 

 States. 



127. Ameiurus vulgaris Thompson. 

 Long-jawed Catfish. 

 Lacustrine and fluviatile. 



Lake Champlain and Provinces of Ontario and Manitoba: ranges in the United States from 

 Vermont westward to Illinois and Minnesota: "most abundant from Lake Erie." 

 (Nash). 



128. Ameiurus nebulosus Le Sueur. (Plate VIII, figures 68 and 69). 

 Common Catfish: Horned Pout. 



Lacustrine and fluviatile. 



Ranges in Canada from the Maritime Provinces to Manitoba, including the St. Lawrence 

 River and Great Lakes region: recorded from the Saskatchewan River region (Richard- 

 son, 1823, as Silurus felis) : in the United States extending from Maine westward to 

 North Dakota, and southward to the southern States: has been introduced into rivers 

 of California, and into lakes of southern Oregon. 



129. Ameiurus melas Rafinesque. 

 Black Bullhead. 

 Lacustrine and fluviatile. 



Extends from upper St. Lawrence River and State of New York, westward to Nebraska 

 (Gill, 1862, as Amiurus obesus) and Kansas (Gilbert, 1884, as Amiurus cragini): re- 

 corded from Medina River, Texas (Cope, 1880, as Amiurus brack y acanthus) : pre- 

 sumably Ontario.f 



130. Noturus flavus Rafinesque. 

 Stone Catfish. 

 Lacustrine and fluviatile. 



Ottawa River: J Lake Champlain: Great Lakes region, extending westward to Montana 

 and Wyoming and southward to Texas. 



*"It is not certain just what its range really is. It is probably chiefly or even entirely confined to the Great 

 Lakes and northward, including possible the upper Mississippi." Jordan and Evermann. 



j""I believe that many years ago I took it in the county of Lincoln, Ontario." Nash. 



}A very small specimen some li inches long passed from the Ottawa River through the water taps of the Ottawa 

 fish hatchery in February, 1909. 



