306 REPORT OK THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



Red HorSC (Moxosto?na aurcolum LeSueur). 



Catostomns aureolus DeKay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 201, pi. 42 fig. 133, 1842. 



Moxostoma aureolum Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 140, 1883; Bean, Fishes 

 Penna., 30, 1893 ; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 192, 1896. 



The red horse has the additional names of golden red horse, golden sucker, 

 mullet, golden mullet, and lake mullet. It inhabits the Great Lakes and the 

 region northward, also the Ohio Valley. It is common in Lake Erie, but not in 

 Ohio. 



This, species grows to a length of 18 inches and is one of the handsomest of the 

 suckers. Prof. Forbes records it from lakes of Northern Illinois, also abundantly in 

 the central part of that State. 



Dr. Evermann, in collecting fishes of the Lake Ontario region, secured it at the 

 following localities: Lake Ontario, four miles off Nine Mile Point, N. Y. , June 12, 

 1893; Lake Shore, three miles west of Oswego, July 17, 1894; mouth Salmon River, 

 July 25, 1894; Long Pond, Charlotte, N. Y., August 17, 1894; Sandy Creek, North 

 Hamlin, N. Y. , August 20, 1894. 



DeKay records the species as very common in Lake Erie. In August and 

 September he observed them to be full of worms. In his New York Fauna, Fishes, 

 p. 198, he describes a sucker or mullet under the name Oneida Sucker. This he 

 stated is common in Oneida Lake. The species is considered identical with 

 Moxostoma aureolum. His description shows a very close agreement with that of 

 aurcolum. 



The food of the red horse consists chiefly of mollusks and insects. It is not 

 a choice food fish. 



Eugene Smith records this form as occurring in the vicinity of New York 

 City. Mention has already been made of the doubt concerning the northern 

 limits of the range of macrolepidotum ; but for the sake of comparison the brief 

 description of macrolepidotum published by Jordan & Evermann is given herewith. 



Head moderate, rather stout, its length four and three fifths in body; eye one 

 and two thirds in snout ; dorsal fin with its free edge concave; scales usually with 

 dusky shade at base; lower fins pale. Streams about Chesapeake and Delaware 

 Bays and southward to North Carolina. It seems in some respects intermediate 

 between M. aureolum and M. crassilabre ; we cannot at present identify it with 

 either. 



