10 -REPORT OF EXPLORATIONS MADE IN ALABAMA DURING 1889, WITH 
NOTES ON THE FISHES OF THE TENNESSEE, ALABAMA, 
AND ESCAMBIA RIVERS. 
Bt CHARLES H. GILBERT. 
The present paper is based primarily on collections and observations made during 
the summer of 1889 for the U. S. Fish Commission, by Philij) H. Kirsch, William M. 
Andrews, and Everett O. Jones, students in the Indiana University. I have also 
added notes on such additional species as were obtained from the same region by 
Prof. Joseph Swain and the writer in 1884, and by Jordan, Evermann, and Bollman 
in 1886. 
With the exception of the larger river fishes, which have not been collected by 
us, the present list is probably approximately complete for the bend of the Tennessee 
River. The results of the examination have been mainly noteworthy as showing the 
presence in the clear, cold spring-fed tributaries of this lower portion of the river of an 
unexpectedly large number of species characteristic of the head waters of the French 
Broad and tbe Holston Rivers. 
The list from the Alabama River is far from complete, and additional collections 
are much needed from that region. 
The following streams were examined : 
A. — The Tennessee River : 
1. Pin-hook Creek, Huntsville, Ala. 
2. Spring Branch, Huntsville, Ala. 
3. Veta Wright Creek, Decatnr, Ala. 
4. Mallett Creek, Hillsborough, Ala. 
5. Spring Creek, Courtland, Ala. 
6. Big Nance Creek, Courtland, Ala. 
7. Spring Creek and Branch, Tuecum- 
bia, Ala. 
8. Cypress Creek, Florence, Ala. 
[9. Shoal Creek, Florence, Ala.*] 
[10. Duck River, Columbia, Tenn.*] 
[11. Richland Creek, Pulaski, Tenn.*] 
[12. Pigeon Roost Creeks, Pulaski, 
Tenn.*] 
B. — The Alabama River; 
I. The Black Warrior River : 
[1. Eight-mile Creek, Cullman, Ala.'"] 
2. Mulberry River, Blount Springs, 
Ala. 
3. Stone Creek, Blount Springs. 
4. Black Warrior at Warrior Station, 
and Morris, Ala.* 
B. — Alabama River — Continued. 
5. Black Warrior, Tuscaloosa, Ala. 
t). North River, Tuscaloosa, Ala.* 
11, The Coosa River : 
1. Cahawba River, Helena, Ala. 
2. A small creek at Calera, Ala. 
3. Clear Creek, Attalla, Ala. 
4. Will’s Creek, Attalla, Ala. 
5. Choccolo Creek, Oxford, Ala. 
6. Chestnut Creek, Verbena, Ala. 
C. — The Escambia River : 
1. Persimmon Creek, Greenville, Ala. 
2. Hawkins Creek, Greenville, Ala. 
3. Sand Creek, Evergreen, Ala. 
4. Murder Creek, Evergreen, Ala. 
5. Little Escambia River, Pollard, 
Ala. 
6. Will’s Creek, Pollard, Ala. 
7. Black Creek, Pollard, Ala. 
[8. Escambia River at Flomaton, Ala.*] 
[9. Escambia River at its mouth. t] 
* Collections of Gilbert and Swain, 1884. 
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