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very swift. It flows through the woods, and is in jDlaces full of brush and driftwood. 
The ford is gravelly and sandy. 
6. Mill Creek, at Pollard, May 13. Temperature 71° Fah. This is a small, dirty, 
sluggish little stream a mile north of town. 
7. Black Creek, at Pollard, May 13. This is a small weedy stream 2 miles north of 
town. Its bottom is very mudd 3 ^ 
8. Escambia River, at Flomaton, Ala. Collections of Jordan, Evermann and Boll, 
mau, 1886. The stream at this point is clear and swift, the water rather cold, the 
bottom of sand and fine gravel. 
9. Escambia River, near its mouth in Florida. Collections obtained from fisher- 
men by Jordan and Bollman, 1886. 
The following is in brief an itinerary of the summer’s work in 1889 : 
May 6. — Left Bloomington, Ind., the party consist- 
ing of P, H. Kirsch, E. O. Jones, and Win. M. 
Andrews. 
May 8 . — At New Orleans, seined near West End, on 
Lake Pontchartrain. 
May 9. — At Biloxi, Miss., Biloxi Bay. 
May 10. — ^At Ocean Springs, Miss. 
May 11. — At Ocean Springs, Miss., seined at Fort 
Bayou. 
May 13. — At Pollard, Ala. 
May 14. — At Evergreen, Ala. 
May 15. — At Greenville, Ala. 
May 17.— At Verbena, Ala. 
May 18. — At Calera, Ala. 
May 20. — At Helena, Ala. 
May 21. — At Tuscaloosa, Ala. 
May 23. — At Oxford, Ala. 
May 24. — At Attalla, Ala. 
May 2.5.— At Blount Springs and Huntsville, Ala. 
May 27, 28. — At Huntsville. 
Juno 1. — At Decatur, Ala. 
June A.— At Tuscumbia, Ala. 
J«»e 5.— At Florence, Ala. 
Juno 6. — At Tuscumbia, Ala. 
June 7. — At Courtland, Ala. 
June 8. — At Hillsboro, Ala. 
June 9. — Returned to Bloomington. 
A. — The Bend of the Tennessee Eiver. , 
1. Lepidosteus osseus L. 
Found abundant in a pond emptying into Richland Creek at Pulaski, Tenn. The 
species does not often enter the smaller streams. 
2. Noturiis miurus Jordan. 
FTot abundant. Specimens taken in Duck River and in Cj’press Creek. 
3. Noturus exilis Nelson. 
Rare. A few specimens from Richland and Cypress Creek. 
4. Noturus flavus Eaf. 
Taken onh" in Shoal Creek at Florence. 
5. Ameiurus melas Eaf. 
From Spring Creek, Huntsville. 
6. Ameiurus natalis Le Sueur. 
Mallett’s Creek and Veta Wright Creek. 
7. Ictalurus punctatus Eaf. 
Abundant in the Tennessee at Florence. Small specimens taken in Spring Creek 
at Courtland. 
8. Carpiodes difformis Cope. 
Richland Creek. 
9. Ictiobus bubalus Eaf. 
Tennessee River at Florence, 
