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*f the Ohio, from the fells to the mouth, and it runs up the small 

 creeks, but is rare every where. Its length is from six to twelve 

 inches. The snout is rounded, the head sloping and small, the 

 preopercule rounded, the opercule flexuosc or nearly lobatc; 

 the eyes are black and beyond the mouth. The back is almost 

 black, the two dorsal fins are dotted like the body, the first has 

 about twelve spiny rays, and the second about eight soft rays* 

 this last is very near the tail. The anal fin has about twenty 

 rays and begins just belo\v the vent and the end of the first dor- 

 sal fiflu Vent in the middle of the body, almost nearer the head. 

 n Genus. Bubbler. Amblodon. Amblodon. 



Body elliptical, compressed, scaly; head and gill covers sca- 

 ly, jaws with small fily teeth, throat with a triangular bone be- 

 neath, covered with large round hollow and obtuse teeth. Gill 

 cover with two pieces, preopercule slightly denticulate at the 

 base, opercule without teeth nor spines; branchial membrane 

 vith six rays. Two dorsal fins cqntigous, the first spiny, the 

 second partly so, scaly along the base. Vent posterior. 



This genus was called by me Afilodinotus G. 8. of my Me- 

 moir on 70 New Genera of American animals* in Abe journal of 

 Natural History oi Paris, having been led into error, in suppos- 

 ing that the remarkable teeth of its throat belonged to the Buf- 

 falo fish, as will be seen below. The name means obtuse teeth. 

 It differs from (he G. Scie?ia by the scaly head, opercule and 

 base of second dorsal fin, besides the singular teeth. Only one 

 species is known as yet. 



4th Species. Grunting Bubbler. Amblodon grunnien* 

 Amblodon grognant. 



Synonymy. Sciena grunniena Raf. Caul, fishes of Ohio. 

 Ajilodinotus grunniens. Raf. Mem. on 70 N. G. Animals, G. 8, 



Entirely silvery, upper lip longer, lateral line curved up- 

 wards at the base, bent in the middle, and straight posteriorly, 

 tail lunulate, first dorsal fin with nine rays, the first very short, 

 the second with 35 rays, the first spiny and short. 

 The vulgar names of this fish are White-perch, White-pearch, 

 Buffaloe-perch, grunting-perch, bubbling-fish, bubbler, and 

 muscle-eater. , It is one of the largest and best found in the O- 

 hio, reaching sometimes u the length of three feet and th« 



