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blact snake. It Tikes to go in the water. Dorsal scales cariiiated. Tail brown, 
having at the end a short obtuse and compressed horn, as most of the snakes. 
32. Coluber tesselatus. Grey, checkered like a chess board with red spots, and 
some black ones intermixed.— Length three feet. This beautiful snake was found 
at Louisville in a hogshead of sugar imported from Louisiana. It is called calli- 
coe snake in Louisiana. 
33. Coluber fidriventev. Entirely black above, and brick-red beneath, throat 
yellow ; dorsal scales carinated; about two hundred abdominal scales, and seven- 
ty pairs' of caudal ; tail one fifth of total length.— Length nearly three feet; it 
has large teeth, but no fangs. Vulgar name chicken snake Found in Kentucky, 
Oliio, Indiana, &c. 
34 Angidnus fJingms L.J fasciatus. Yellowish-white, with broad brown 
rings, marginated of black on the back, and on the sides a row of small interme- 
diary bands like spots ; head mixed with brown. — Length one foot, cyhndrical ; 
scales smooth, hexagonal, head with large scales above and flattened. It lives 
ncr.r Lake George and Lake Champlain : vulgar names, eel snake, ring snake, 
worm snake. 
IV CLASS. ICHTHYOSIA— THE FISHES. 
II. N. G. Hemitlus. Abdominal. Body oblong, one dorsal fin opposite to the 
vent ; liead small, mouth puckered, toothless, looking upwards, lower lip longer; 
gill cover double ; abdominal fin with only five rays, and a scaly lateral appen- 
dage at the base. — It belongs to the family Ctjprinidia, it difl^ers from Cijprinns by 
the mouth and abdominal fins, which have appendages like the real G. Salmo, 
Chipea, Spams, &c. This striking character has been neglected by all the Ich- 
thyologists ; 1 wish to djravv their attention to it. The generic name means half- 
double. 
35. Ifemiphis laciistris. Silvery, with gilt shades, back and top of the head 
brownish ; lateral line curved downwards, a second and upper one straight reach- 
ing the dorsal fin only; all the fins olivaceous tipped with brown : dorsal fin nine 
rayed, anal falcate fourteen rayed, tail forked. — I have already mentioned this 
small fish in the Amer. M. Mag. 1st Dec. of new fishes, sp. 7, vol. 2. p. 121, \x\\- 
dcr the name of Cypriiws /lemipl us. It is found in Lake George, Lalie Saratoga, 
and Lake Champlain. Length three to six inches. Pcct. 14. C. 24. Vulgar 
names Shiner or Minny. 
36. Cyprinus hwinatopterus. Back olivaceous brown, sides coppered, pale be- 
neath ; head black, tuberculated above and on the lower lip, gill cover reddish 
with a black .spot : lateral line curved downwards at the base ; tail forked, lower 
fins bloody red, anal and dorsal nine rayed, this last in the middle of the back.— 
A pretty fish called red-fin chub, not uncommon in the streams falling into the 
Hudson. Length five or six inches ; iris gilt, mouth large terminal toothless, 
jaws equal ; all the fins olivaceous, marginated or tipped with bloody red, tlie pec- 
toral and abrominals are entirely red, the first ray of the pectoral is bluish. P. 
1.5. abd. 9. C. 20. Eyes black. 
37. Cyprinus triviitntns. Back and fins olivaceous, a brown longitudinal band 
on the back, a broad bluish band on each side above the lateral fine, which is 
nearly straight ; belly white with gilt shades, head brown, rather rough above, 
gill cover gilt : tail forked, anal and dorsal fins witli nine rays, this last in the mid- 
die of the back. — Similar to the foregoing and to my C.vittatiis in many points. 
Iris gilt brown. Found in tlie Fishkiil and Wallkill creeks, state of New-York. 
38. Salmo pnllidus. Lower jaw much longer, body cylindrical; grey crowded 
with irregular rounded pale yellowish spots, gills silvery, lateral line ascending at 
the base, tail forked brownish, dorsal fin brown with twelve rays, adipose fin 
olivaceous, lower fins white, the anal with twelve rays. — Coirmon in Lake Cham- 
plain, Lake George, Lake Seneca, &.c : vulgar names salmon trout, white trout, 
or lake trout, &c ; length two to four feet. Very good food, flesh reddish. 
V CLASS. PLAXOMIA— THE CRUSTACEA. 
III. N. G. Spehchics. Antenna doiible than the head, four nearly equal, with 
two long truncate articles, the upper pair rather broader and longer. Body com- 
pressed, with seven segments, each with a large lateral appendage or scale ; the 
i'uurth larger and with an additional posterior appendage, the corresponding feet 
