4 FISHES OF LORAIN COUNTY, OHIO. 



to me by Dr. Jordan, after eliminating doubtful and extra-limital 

 species, it is reduced to 130 species. But he named some 15 other 

 species as likely to occur in Ohio waters." 



Since 1882 the most impotant additions to the literature of the 

 subject are (i). Notes in "Fisheries and Fishing Industries of the 

 United States," by Prof. G. B. Goode and associates; (2) three 

 papers by Dr. J. A. Henshall, published in the journal of the Cin- 

 cinnati Society of Natural History, the first being a list of 90 

 species taken near Cincinnati in 1888; the second an additional 

 list of 40 Ohio fishes, including 22 from Lake Erie, 1889; the 

 third. Observations on Ohio Fishes, 1890, in which the history of 

 the subject is reviewed. In 1890 a partial list of Lorain County 

 fishes appeared in the same journal giving 55 species, without notes. 



The nomenclature of American ichthyology is in a very un- 

 settled state, almost every paper that appears having some changes 

 for old friends. In order, therefore, to facilite references to Jord- 

 an's Manual, I use the names given there, although I realize that 

 this will mark the paper as not "up with the procession." 



The present paper includes 88 species; and is, I believe, the 

 first distinctly local list published for Northern Ohio. The same 

 list, with notes on distribution only, has been sent to the U. S. 

 Fish Commission for publication 'n their reports. There are, 

 perhaps, a dozen more species whose known geographical range 

 makes it probable that they occur in this region, but for lack of 

 definite records they are omited here. 



This list is based on notes covering about four years of obser- 

 vation, but in no one season have I been able to give the subject 

 the attention that would have enabled me to note the movements 

 of the fishes to and from their spawning ground. I only know that 

 many species do enter the streams from the lake for this purpose, 

 and then go back to deep water. Under what conditions they 

 make these pilgrimages, what length of time is spent in the streams, 

 how they protect their eggs, etc., etc., are questions still to be 

 solved. 



In speaking of the comparative abundance or rarity of species, 

 I can only give my own experience; and such an instance as the 

 trout-perch, for example, which I did not find at all the first three 

 years, but did find commonly in the same waters the last year 

 makes me feel like making few arbitrary statements on this point 

 Specimens of all the fishes named in this list except Polyodon 



