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Lakes Ontario and Erie it is quite common and is taken in the pound nets in great 

 numbers. The young are used to some extent for bait, along with the preceding 

 species. 



Head 4^ to 4^ ; depth 4% to 4^ ; scales 95 to 1 14, 26 to 31 in a cross-series; 

 D. 10 or 1 1. 



Body elongate, subterete ; head long and slender, depressed and flattened above, 

 broad at base, but tapering into a long snout which considerably overhangs the 

 large mouth ; lips thick, coarsely tuberculate, the upper lip narrow, with 2 to 4 

 rows of papillae ; lower lip deeply incised, the lobes rather short ; lower jaw with a 

 slight cartilaginous sheath ; eye rather small, behind the middle of the head ; scales 

 very small, much crowded forward ; males in spring with the head and the anal fin 

 profusely tuberculate, the tubercles on the head small ; the side in the breeding 

 season with a broad rosy band. 



This species can be distinguished from the preceding by its longer snout and 

 finer scales. 



MoO" \3^Cl^Cr, — Catostoinus nigricans l^e Suenr. 



This fish has perhaps more common names than any other sucker. Hog Sucker, 

 Black Sucker, Mottled Sucker, Stone Roller, Stone Toter, Crawl-a-bottom, Hammer- 

 head, Stone Lugger, and Hog Molly, are a few of those which have been applied to 

 it. It reaches a length of about 2 feet and is found from Vermont to the Dakotas 

 and south on both sides of the AUeghanies to Kansas, Arkansas and the Carolinas. 

 It is seldom or never found in mu^dy, warm or stagnant water, but is abundant in 

 the clear, cold, rocky streams toward whose headwaters it ascends to spawn. It 

 delights in the rather shallow and swift waters of the riffles, where it can be seen 

 resting quietly or moving slowly about upon the gravelly bottom. 



The young of this species are used to some extent in still-fishing, but they are 

 not of much value. Though ''hey live well on the hook and are pretty active, thev 

 are too dull in color and are too prone to seek the bottom. They are, however, 

 often seen in the live-boxes of the thrifty dealer in live bait, who will assure the 

 unsophisticated angler that they. are equal to the best. 



