The Food of Fishes. 
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Table of Food of Ambloplites and Chjenobryttus. 
Ambloplites. 
Chasnobryttus. 
23 
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c 
0 
Ih 
<U 
g 
6 
£ 
0 
23 
O 
c 
<u 
G 
O 
vi 
<U 
23 
u 
_G 
Ih 
G 
£ 
0 
0 
<u 
i_ 
23 
H 
to 
3 
T 3 
< 
<v 
XJ 
G 
3 
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G 
rt 
23 
, 0 
G 
<u 
G 
O 
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£ 
0 
rG 
O 
G 
0) 
G 
O 
to 
0 
23 
O 
G 
<D 
<U 
rG 
O 
O 
Z 
H 
M 
3 
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Number of specimens examined 
3 
3 
2 
4 
2 
4 
4 
6 
I. Fishes 
15 
52 
01 
47 
53 
11 Insects 
39 
99 
16 
17 
03 
03 
97 
57 
64 
Undetermined larvae 
Caterpillars 
i. Diptera (larvae) 
05 
05 
06 
32 
26 
04 
04 
10 
10 
Chironomus 
2. Coleoptera 
02 
Of 
01 
01 
03 
Terrestrial 
Aquatic 
03 
01 
02 
Dytiscidae 
Hydrophilidae , . . . . 
3. Ilemiptera 
63 
63 
95 
90 
05 
20 
20 
18 
18 
Corixa 
Hygrotrechus tyoung^ 
4. Neuroptera (larvae) 
34 
42 
21 
25 
03 
40 
12 
25 
25 
25 
Ephemeridae 
Palingenia 
Baetis 
01 
01 
05 
15 
t 
31 
31 
Agrionidae 
10 
28 
Llbellulidae 
Phryganeidae 
HI.' ARACHNiDA(Hydrachna) 
IV. Crustacea 
61 
03 
100 
43 
34 
t 
Decapod a (Cambarus) 
Amphipoda 
03 
Entomostraca 
61 
58 
01 
IOO 
70 
43 
24 
34 
34 
21 
t 
t 
Cladocera 
Daphnia 
Bosmina 
70 
Pleuroxus 
33 
t 
Chydorus 
t 
t 
Copepoda 
03 
01 
30 
19 
V. Vegetation 
02 
02 
.... 
02 
Potamogeton 
Al<T;r . 
02 
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Apomotis cyanellus, Eaf. Blue-spotted Sunfish. 
This species, distributed throughout the State, is espe- 
cially abundant in central Illinois, where it is the com- 
mon fish of the ponds and smaller streams — “the sun- 
