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Rcd-Sidcd N3l)incr, — Lendscus elongatus (Kirtland). 



This is a rather rare species, occurring in the Great Lakes region and the Upper 

 Mississippi Valley, chiefly from Pennsylvania to Minnesota. It has not until now 

 been reported from the State of New York. In 1894 I found it in Spring Brook at 

 Pulaski, Three-mile Creek at Oswego, and in Wart Creek. It has been taken in 

 various places in the eastern part of Ohio from streams tributary to Lake Erie, and 

 others in the Ohio basin. It is a brook species inhabiting clear, deep pools of brooks 

 and spring runs, and is one of the most elegant of our Cyprinidce. It attains a 

 length of 5 or 6 inches and is a good bait minnow where found. 



Head 4; depth 5 ; eye about 4; the dorsal fin has 8 rays and the anal 9; scales 

 10-70-5 ; teeth 2,4-5,2. 



Body rather long and compressed ; head long and pointed ; mouth very large 

 and oblique ; the lower jaw strongly projecting, with a small knob at its tip ; upper 

 lip on level of pupil ; maxillary extending to middle of eye ; posterior angle of 

 opercle acute ; scales very small ; fins short and high, the dorsal somewhat behind 

 the ventrals; lateral line decurved. 



Color, dark bluish, the scales mottled with paler ; side with a broad black band, 

 the anterior half of which is bright crimson in males in spring, when the belly and 

 lower fins are more or less reddened ; belly at other seasons more or less silvery ; a 

 dark vertebral band. 



I\OQ.Cl), — Abrauiis crysoleticas (Mitchill). 



The Roach is still another of the com.mon minnows of New York first described 

 and named by Senator Mitchill. It is also known as Golden Shiner, Deep-bodied 

 Minnow and Bream., the last name being a confusing misnomer, as it is usually 

 restricted to certain species of the Centrarchid(Z or sunfishes. 



The Roach is one of our most comm.on minnows and is of wide distribution. It 

 is everywhere abundant in suitable waters from Nova Scotia south to North Caro- 

 lina and westward to the Dakotas, Arkansas and Texas. It prefers still or sluggish 

 waters and is abundant everywhere in sluggish streams, bayous and weedy ponds. 

 It has been recorded from Lake George and elsewhere in New York, and is one of 

 the best known and most characteristic of our Cyprinidce. It reaches a foot or more 

 in length, and may often be seen on the small boy's string. 



It is a handsome fish, but is not very hardy, for which reason it is, in most places, 

 not held in very high esteem as a bait minnovv during the summer time; but during 



