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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
43. Zygonectes notatus (Eafinesque). Top Minnow. Not very common, but generally distributed 
throughout Eel Eiver and its tributaries. A few specimens were also taken in Blue, 
Shriner, and Cedar lakes. 
44. Umbra linii (Kirtland). Mud Minnoiv. This little fish was found in sluggish waters in the upper 
courses of Eel and Blue rivers, and in Thorn and Blue Babe creeks. 
45. Lucius vermiculatus (Le Sueur). Grass Pike; Little Pickerel. Common in all waters examined 
excejit Hull Lake, where none were caught. Fishermen re^iort it common in this lake also. 
Especially abundant in the larger lakes, wdiere specimens 12 inches in length were seen. 
46. Lucius lucius (Linnaeus). Pike; White Pike. A number of specimens were taken at various 
places in Eel Eiver; the largest of these was 2 feet in length and weighed 5 pounds. Two 
smaller specimens were taken in Stony Creek; their stomachs were tilled with crawfish. 
Last summer a 7-pound pike was taken with hook and line in Eel Eiver, near Columbia City. 
47. Anguilla chrysypa Eafinesque. Eel. We did not secure a single si)ecimen, but saw the skin 
of one which had been taken from Eel Eiver, at Collamer. It was formerly very common in 
Blue Eiver. 
48. Labidesthes sicculus Cope. Brook Sih-erside; Smelt. Common in Shriner, Cedar, and Eouud 
lakes, and throughout Eel Eiver and its tributaries. In the lakes this fish forms a large 
portion of the food supply of carnivorous fishes. 
49. Aphredoderus sayanus (Gilliams). Pirate Perch. Inhabits quiet or sluggish waters in upper 
Eel and Blue rivers. A few specimens were also taken in Thorn Creek. 
50. Pomoxis sparoides (Lac6pede). Calico Bass. Common in all the waters of Eel Eiver basin. 
51. Pomoxis annularis Eafinesque. Bachelor. A few sq>ecimens from Eel and Blue rivers and 
Meredith Creek. Generally found associated with the calico bass. 
52. Ambloplites rupestris (Eafinesque). Bock Bass; Goggle-eye; Bed-eye. Distributed throughout 
all the streams. None were found in the lakes. 
53. Cliaenobryttus gulosus (Cuvier & Yalenciennes) Warmouth. Found in Eel Eiver and in 
nearly all of its larger tributaries, and in all the lakes except Hull Lake. It frequents 
quiet waters. Nowhere common. 
54. Lepomis cyanellus Eafinesque. Green Sunfish. Not common. Eel Eiver and all its larger trib- 
utaries, and Eound and Wilson lakes. It was not seen by me in the other lakes, but it no doubt 
inhabits them also. 
55. Lepomis pallidus (Mitchill). Blue-gill; Blue Sunfish. Freqixeuts all the waters examined. The 
largest from Shriner Lake measured 9^ inches in length. This is one of the most important 
food-hshes in the lakes. 
56. Lepomis megalotis (Eafinesque). Long-eared Sunfish. Common in Eel Eiver and in nearly all 
its larger tributaries. Found in none of the lakes except in Hull Lake, where one small 
specimen was caught. 
57. Lepomis euryorus McKay. Only three siiecimens were taken, one each from Cedar and Shriner 
lakes and one from an old side channel in the upper course of Eel Eiver. The largest 
specimen is inches long. These specimens have some points of difference from Lepomis 
euryorus McKay, but for the present they are identified with that sjiecies. The dorsal 
outline slightly more convex than the ventral. Head, 3; dejith, 3; eye, 4; snout, 4. Mouth 
small, oblique, maxillary reaching to front margin of eye. Teeth on vomer. Pharyngeal 
teeth conical. Gill-rakers short, about 8 or 9 in number. Scales on the cheeks in 5 rows 
and not 6 or 7 rows as in McKay’s descrijition of L. euryorus. Scales on the opercle larger 
than those on the cheeks. Subopercle with a single row of 'scales. The flap of the opercle 
a shiny black color surrounded by a membranous margin which is whitish above and below 
in the alcoholic si')ecimen. Front of dor.sal somewhat behind base of pectorals and directly 
over insertion of ventrals. Dorsal spines all curved backwards, tliose in the middle the 
highest and equal in length to the distance from the tip of the snout to the center of the 
eye. Soft portion of dorsal slightly higher than spinous dorsal. Posterior insertion of 
soft dorsal and that of anal fin are opposite. The base of anal fin is contained twice in that 
of dorsal fin. The third s^jine of anal the longest. Ventrals inserted behind pectorals. 
The ventrals extend,) ust over the vent. Pectorals not quite reaching vent. Scales etenoid, 
5-43-11. Color in sqiirits, above axis of body, dark olive; below, yellowish. Toji of head 
black. The membranes of vertical fins dusky. Ventrals also du.sky, with lighter margins. 
The pectorals are whitish. D. x, 10 or 11; A. in, 10. 
