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Notropis hetcrodon (Cope). 



This is another small species belonging in the same group with the Cayuga 

 Minnow. It not only closely resembles that species, but the two have about the 

 same geographic distribution and may often be taken at the same haul with the 

 collecting seine. 



Notropis kcterodoii, like most of the species of minnows and other inconspicuous 

 fishes, has not received any common name more distinctive than simply " minnow." 

 It reaches about the same size as Notropis cayuga and is similar to it in value and 

 use as a bait minnow. 



Head 4 ; depth 4; eye 3 ; dorsal 8 ; anal 8 ; scales 5-36-3 ; teeth usually 4-4, but 

 sometimes 2,4-4,2, often crenate. 



Body moderately stout, the back somewhat elevated ; head rather pointed, the 

 muzzle pointed ; mouth oblique, the lower jaw projecting ; upper lip on level with 

 upper edge of pupil; maxillary reaching orbit; 13 scales in front of dorsal fin; 

 lateral line incomplete, usually only about half length of body. 



Color, olivaceous ; a blackish rostral band ; side with a plumbeous or dusky 

 band ; chin black. 



From the Cayuga Minnow, which this species most resembles, it can readily be 

 distinguished by the black on tip of lower jaw. 



^3l)inel% — Notropis hudsonius (DeWitt Clinton). 



The Empire State is unique in the number of its prominent officials who have 

 taken an active and intelligent interest in natural history. Samuel Latham 

 Mitchill, who represented New York in the United States Senate from 1804 to 1809, 

 was an earnest student of the fishes native to the State and described many new 

 species. DeWitt Clinton, Governor of New York from 1817 to 1823 and from 1825 

 to 1828, was also an enthusiastic angler who described several supposed new fishes, 

 among them the present species. And President Theodore Roosevelt, Governor 

 of New York from 1898 to igoo, has written more and better about the big game of 

 America than any other. Governor Clinton described the Shiner in 1824 from 

 specimens obtained in the Hudson River. The Shiner is a species with a wide 

 range. It is found from Vermont westward to the Dakotas and southward to the 

 Carolinas. It is abundant throughout the Great Lakes region and is not rare in 

 certain waters east of the AUeghanies. In Lake Ontario, particularly about Cape 

 Vincent, it is one of the most abundant minnows. It is probably found in most, 

 if not all, of the interior lakes draining into Lake Ontario, while in Chautauqua 



