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18. Hybopsis kentuckiensis (Rafinesqne). P., F., B., C., J., T. 
Very coinmou; body short and deep; scales 39. 
19. Anguilla anguilla rostrata (Le Sueur). C., T., P. 
Everywhere common. 
20. Salvelinus fontinalis (MitcLill). B. 
Brook trout abound in the headwaters of Buck’s Creek, and doubtless also in the 
Linville and John’s Eivers. None were taken by us. 
21. Lepomis auritus (L.). B., J., C., P. 
Common. The specimens from this region belong to var. solis, characterized by 
the slightly larger scales. Usually a dark shade at base of last rays of dorsal. 
22. Etheostoma nigrum (Rafluesque). B., C., J. 
Common in the river channels ; scarce in the smaller streams. Scales 44. 
23. Etheostoma peltatum Stauffer. B., C., J., P. 
Frequent. Especially common iti John’s River. Head usually naked. Stales 52 
to 54. Dorsal low, with median black band; second dorsal, caudal, and pectoral 
sharply banded. D. XI, or XIl-14. 
24. Etheostoma thalassinum (Jordan & Brayton). B., J., F., P. 
Much the commonest of the darters, especially abundant among the weed-grown 
rocks of Buck’s Creek. Scales 40. Caudal distinctly lunate. In life, green; mottled 
in various shades; body with 6 or 7 cross-bars of bluish-green; ventrals and anal 
bluish-green; fins mottled, not barred; orange on belly and on bases of pectoral and 
caudal; spinous dorsal edged with orange; a dark spot and a yellow areg^at base of 
pectoral; a pale oblique streak below and behind eye. 
25. Etheostoma flabellare (Rafluesque). B.,J. 
Common in clear waters. Most specimens have but seven dorsal spines. The 
number of scales is unexpectedly variable. I count 40, 39, 41, 43, 44, 50, in six 
specimens. 
K.— THE KANAWHA RIVER. 
The Kanawha River, called in Virginia the New River, rises on the western slope 
of the Blue Ridge in western North (Carolina, and flows nearly north through Vir- 
ginia and West Virginia into the Ohio River. Its tributaries are generally clear 
mountain streams, though the river itself is more or less stained by the yellow clays 
over which it flows. The fauna of the Kanawha is essentially that of the Ohio, 
although it contains a few species (as Exoglossum maxillingwa) not found in any other 
western waters. 
Our collections include but a small part of the fauna of the Kanawha, as the high 
waters of the middle of September made it necessary to abandon work both on the 
Kanawha and tlie James. The three streams examined are all unsuitable for successful 
collecting. 
1. Peak Creek at Pulaski, Va. August 4; temperature about 67°. A clear, cold 
stream with very rocky bottom and many deep holes among rocks. This stream was 
carefully seined for a distance of about half a mile above Pulaski. It contains great 
numbers of black bass {Micropterus dolomieu) and absolutely nothing else, two small 
