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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
17. Anguilla rostrata LeSueur. “Eel,” “Common Eel.” 
The eel is not common in the brickyard ponds, and only small ones were taken. 
It apparently is of no commercial importance in the vicinity. 
18. Umbra llmi (Kirtland). Mud Minnow. 
This fish is common in the very muddy ponds, in which it may be found in 
company with the “jack grindle.” The specimens in the present collection appear 
to resemble the northern form, TJmbra limi, more closely than the more southern 
form, U. pigmx. The southernmost range of the genus, as recorded by Jordan and 
Evermann (Bulletin U. S. National Museum, XL VII, 1896, p. 623), is Neuse River, 
N. C., and of U. limi is New Jersey and the Ohio River. The range of the genus 
and species was extended a considerable distance southward by the record of Palmer 
and Wright (Iowa Academy of Science, XXVII, 1920, p. 362), who first recorded 
the genus and the species, limi, from Georgia. This minnow was mistaken for the 
young of the “jack grindle,” or bowfin, by several anglers who saw the fish when it 
was caught. 
19. Dorosoma cepedlanum (LeSueur). “Gizzard Shad,” “Mud Shad.” 
The “mud shad” is plentiful in some of the brickyard ponds and borrow pits in 
the vicinity, where it undoubtedly is an important source of food for other species. 
20. Esox americanus Gmelin. “Red-finned Pike,” “Jack.” 
The “jack” is a rather common species in brickyard ponds, and it is spoken 
of in the vicinity as a richly flavored fish. Specimens vary greatly in color, even 
those taken from the same small pond may have very definite dark wavy bars, 
indistinct bars, or no bars at all. The anal and the paired fins appear to be reddest 
in the otherwise plainly colored individuals. 
21. Esox reticulatus LeSueur. “Jack,” Pickerel. 
This species was taken only in Sweetwater Creek, Edgefield County, S. C., 
and in a pond on the same creek. 
22. Fundulus nottii (Agassiz). Star-headed Minnow, “Top Minnow.” 
This fish is common in certain heavily overgrown swamps and ponds in the 
vicinity. It practically replaces Gambusia in the Carmichael and Richmond 
factory ponds, where it appears to be able to protect itself from game fish better 
than Gambusia. This fish is undoubtedly of some value as an eradicator of 
mosquito larvae. 
23. Gambusia affinis (Baird and Girard). “Top Minnow,” “Top-water 
Minnow.” 
This minnow is by far the most abundant of all the fishes occurring in the 
locality. In 1918 it was introduced into all the ponds in the vicinity that it had 
not reached through natural channels, and it has increased greatly in numbers 
