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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES . FISH COMMISSION. 
NOTES ON PREVIOUS INVESTIGATIONS OF THE FISHES OF ARKANSAS. WITH 
LISTS OF THE SPECIES COLLECTED. 
During the explorations ami surveys for a railroad route from the Mississip]ii Elver 
to the Pacific Ocean in 1S51 to 1858, a few fishes were collected in the State of Arkansas 
by the surveying iiarty. These specimens were studied by Dr. Charles Girard, whose 
results were i>ublished in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences at 
Philadelphia, from i85G to 1859, inclusive, and also in volume x of the Pacific Eailroad 
Survey Report, 1858. 
lu Bulletin U. S. National Museum, 1877, p. 50, Dr. David S. Jordan described 
two new species of fishes from the Little Eed River at Judsonia, Arkansas: Elassoma 
zonatum and Asiernotremia mesotrema = Aphredoderus sayanns. 
In 1881, under the auspices of the U. S. National Museum and the U. S. Fisli 
Commission, Dr. David Starr Jordan and Prof. Charles II. Gilbert made a collection 
of fishes in the same State, at Eureka Springs, Fort Smith, Arkadelphia, Benton, and 
Fulton, Their report ui)ou this material was iiriuted in the Proceedings of the U. S. 
National Museum for 1886. 
During the latter part of June, 1888, Prof. Cliarles II. Gilbert, while in the employ 
of the Arkansas State Geological Survey, obtained a few fishes in a small tributary 
of the Poteau, 7 miles west of Waldron, in Scott County. The list of these species, 
published in the Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum for the same year, is as 
follows : 
The writer, also, in June, 1888, being then in the service of the State Geological 
Survey, collected a small number of fishes in Spadra Creek, near Clarksville, Johnson 
County. In July and August of the following year he spent six weeks in exploring 
the streams of the Ozark region in western Arkansas and southern Missouri, in the 
interests of the U. S. Fish Commission, and with the assistance of Mr, Louis Rettger 
and Mr. Frank M. Drew, then students in the Indiana University, a large collection 
of fishes was obtained. The results of the investigation were published in the Bull- 
etin of the U. S. Fish Commission, vol. ix, for 1889, pp. 113 -141. 
The following three tables, giving lists of the fishes reported upoubyDrs. Girard, 
Jordan, aud Gilbert, and the writer, as above indicated, have been arranged to show 
also the different places at which the several species were collected on each of the 
expeditions to which they relate. 
Fimcphales iiotatus. 
Xoii'ojjis helerodon. 
Xotropis u m hratlUs. 
Ziii/oneotes uoiatiis. 
Camposto m a anoma I um. 
Lepomis huviilis. 
Lepomis megaloUs. 
Etheostoma cccruleitni lepidum. 
Eiheostoma whipiplei. 
Etheostoma microperca. 
