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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
BEAVER CREEK. 
Beaver Creek drains the western portion of Wayne County, Ky. It has a gen- 
eral northwest course and empties into the Cumberland River 3 miles above Rowena. 
Beaver Creek system was examined at the following points: 
1. Beaver Creelt, Wayne County, Ky., September 3. The work on this stream 
was done both above and below McCackney’s milldam. The channel is very rocky. 
Specimens from this creek are marked u B.” 
2. Otter Creelt . — This stream rises among the mountains in the extreme south- 
west part of Wayne County, Ky. It takes a northerly course and empties into 
Beaver Creek a few miles from its mouth. September 2 this stream was seined at 
a point near Jones’s milldam, on the Monticello and Albany road. Like Beaver 
Creek it is a narrow, tortuous, rocky mountain stream and exceedingly hard to work. 
Fish noted from this stream are marked “ O.” 
FISHES OF BEAVER CREEK. 
1. Ameiurus nebulosus (Le Sueur.) (B, O.) Those from Beaver Creek were takeu in a muddy 
side-channel which has no connection with the main stream during low water. 
2. Catostomus nigricans Le Sueur. fB, O.) Common in all swift waters. 
3. Moxostoma macrolepidotum duquesnei (Le Sueur). (B, O.) Regarded as one of the prin- 
cipal food-lishes among local fishermen. 
4. Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque). (B, O.) 
5. Chrosomus erythrogaster Rafinesque. (B.) Not common. 
6. Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque). (B, O.) Common everywhere. 
7. Notropis whipplei (Girard). (B, O.) Scarce. 
8. Notropis galacturus (Cope). (B, O.) Especially abundant in Otter Creek. 
9. Notropis megalops (Rafinesque). (B, O.) Seemingly scarce. 
10. Notropis umbratilis cyanocephalus (Copeland). (Ct.) Not common. 
11. Hybopsis amblops (Rafinesque). (O.) 
12. Hybopsis kentuckiensis (Rafinesque). (B, O.) Only two small specimens were taken in 
Otter Creek; very common in Beaver Creek. 
13. Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill). (B.) D. 7 or 8; A. 8. 
14. Fundulus catenatus (Storer). (B, O.) Common. 
15. Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque. (B.) Only one. 
16. Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque). (B, O.) Scarce. 
17. Micropterus dolomieu Lacfipede. (O.) Many small specimens were taken. 
18. Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque. (B, O.) 
19. Etheostoma caprodes (Rafinesque). (O.) The single specimen is inches long. 
20. Etheostoma obeyense Kirsch. (B, O.) Very abundant everywhere. 
21. Etheostoma coeruleum Storer. (O.) 
BIG SOUTH FORK OF THE CUMBERLAND RIVER. 
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The Big South Fork drains a scope of country lying north of the Cumberland 
Plateau in Tennessee, and extending from the watershed of the Obeys River system 
on the west to the Cross and Jellico mountain slopes on the east. It is tributary to 
the main stream of the Cumberland River at Burnside, Ky. This water system was 
investigated at the following places: 
1. Little South Forte , September 5. This stream has its rise in the southern part 
of Wayne County, Ky. ; it flows north and empties into the Big South Fork. The 
collections were made near the mouth of Canada Creek. Here the channel has an 
