2 -REPORT OF EXPLORATIONS MADE DURING THE SUMMER AND AUTUMN 
OF 1888, IN THE ALLEGHANY REGION OF VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA 
AND TENNESSEE, AND IN WESTERN INDIANA, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF 
THE FISHES FOUND IN EACH OF THE RIVER BASINS OF THOSE RE- 
GIONS. 
BY DAVID STARR JORDAN, 
INTRODUCTION. 
I 
Under the instructions of the U. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, Hon. 
Marshall McDonald, the writer undertook to make a series of examinations of the dif- 
ferent streams of the Alleghany region of Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, 
and the streams of western Indiana. This examination had two general purposes : 
first, to ascertain the general character of the streams in question, their present stock of 
food-fishes and their suitability for the introduction of species not now found there; 
second, to catalogue the fishes native to each stream, whether food-fishes or not, in 
order to complete our knowledge of the geographical distribution of each species, and 
to throw light on the laws which govern geographical distribution. 
In the present paper is given an account of each stream, a list of the fishes found 
in it, and such notes, zoological or economic, on each species as add to our knowledge 
of it. 
In the work of the summer the writer had the very efficient help of his former stu- 
dents, Prof. Oliver P. Jenkins, of De Pauw University, Greeucastle, Ind.; Prof. Barton 
W. Evermann, of the State Normal School, Terre Haute, Ind.; Prof. Seth E. Meek, of 
Coe College, Cedar Eapids, Iowa; and Mr. Charles H. Bollman, museum assistant in 
the Indiana University. The prosecution of the work was also materially aided by 
the help given by Mr. Eichard Eathbun, assistant in charge of the work of scientific 
inquiry in the U. S. Fish Commission. 
The discovery of new species of fishes, which amounted to fourteen in number, was 
a secondary feature of the work of the summer. These, with the permission of the 
Commissioner, I have described in a preliminary paper^ in the Proceedings of the 
U. S. National Museum. The new species are as follows: 
1. Noturus gilbert! Jordan & Evermann. Roanoke River at Salem and Roanoke. 
2. Noturus furiosus Jordan & Meek. Neuse River at Millburnie; Tar River at Rocky Mount. 
3. Moxostoma rupiscartes Jordan & Jenkins. Catawba River at Marion and Morganton ; Buck’s 
Creek at Pleasant Garden ; Pacollet River near Spartanburgb, S. C., etc. 
' Description of fourteen species of fresb-water Ashes collected by the U. S. Fish Commission in 
the summer of 1888. Proceedings U. S. Nat. Mus., 1888, p. 351. 
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