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of predominant fishes made by Francis Harper in January, 1917. 
On the prairies of the Okefinokee in one collection (Jan. 14, 1917) 
he secured Lucania ommata, Pundulus chrysotus, Fundulus nottii 
and Gambusia affims in quantity and Bnneacanthus. Later in a 
small random collection taken at Lake Tohopekaliga, Kissimmee, 
Florida, January 29, 1917, he took Jordanella floridae, Lucania 
goodei, Fundulus seminolis of the so called typical Florida fish, 
also Molliensia latipinna, Heterandria formosa, Gambusia afdnis 
and Bnneacanthus gloriosus. Heterandria formosa extends from 
North Carolina to Florida and Molliensia latipinna from South 
Carolina to Mexico. Both must be too brackish to enter the 
Okefinokee. One cannot resist the suggestion that the Jordanella 
floridae, L. goodei, F. seminolis and F. henshalli, associates of the 
above two brackish species, may be also somewhat brackish and 
too much so for the Okefinokee. 
Many of these same characteristic forms of Florida appear to 
the north and east along the east coast under more brackish 
conditions, namely at Indian river and Lake Jessup. Among them 
are Jordanella floridae, Fundulus seminolis, Fundulus henshalli 
and Molliensia latipinna. Woolman found L. goodei along the 
west coast, Jordanella floridae in Alligator river, Molliensia lati- 
pinna, J. floridae, L. goodei, F. seminolis in Peace river, Jordanella 
in Hillsboro river and M. latipinna, J. floridae, L. goodei, and 
F. ocellaris in Withlacoochee river. None of these did he find in 
the Santa Fe river not far from the southern edge of the Oke- 
finokee swamp. The Okefinokee swamp in its fish contents is 
decidedly fluviatile and hence the few species in our list. If, 
however, it be not rich in species it is teeming in individuals — 
small killifishes as a general food resource for the animals of the 
swamp and larger basses and catfishes as food for man. 
Only two collections of fish have been made in Suwannee 
river previous to our trip of 1912, one by W. J. Taylor at Nash- 
ville, Georgia, Allapaha river, a tributary of the Suwannee river 
and west of the Okefinokee ; the other, by Albert J. Woolman at 
Santa Fe river in Bradford county, Florida, to the south of the 
Okefinokee. The first collector took “Poecilichthys quiescens, 
Notropis metallicus, Blassoma evergladei, and other interesting 
species.” In this collection were two new forms, Notropis metal- 
licus Jordan and Meek and Zygonectes conifer, Jordan and Meek 
(this latter now considered a male Fundulus nottii). The minnow 
was not taken by us. Of the Woolman collection, he himself 
writes as follows : “The Santa Fe River is an eastern, and one 
