6 -A REPORT UPON THE FISHES OF KALAMAZOO, CALHOUN, AND ANTRIM 
COUNTIES, MICHIGAN. 
BY CHARLES H. BOLLMAN. 
In 1885 the Fish Commissioners of Michigan began a systematic survey of the 
lakes and rivers of that State with a view to ascertaining the results of the early 
eliorts at stocking those waters, and also their adaptability to different kinds of fish. 
This information was only to be obtained by a careful examination of each body of 
water as to its quality, temperature, depth, inhabitants, and food-resources. Field par- 
ties were organized from among the employes of the State Commission, and their work 
has been continued during each summer down to the present time. An account of 
their investigations will be found in the seventh and eighth biennial reports of the 
State Board of Fish Commissioners, published at Lansing, Mich., in 1887 and 1888. 
No professional naturalist was attached to these parties previous to 1888, and 
their researches regarding the inhabitants of the lakes and rivers were chiefly limited 
to the commoner species of fish. For the purpose of obtaining a more comprehensive 
knowledge of the fauna, the writer was employed by the U. S. Fish Commissioner to 
accompany the Michigan party in 1888, as naturalist, under an arrangement with the 
State Commissioners. The present paper contains a brief outline of the explorations 
made during that season, and a list of the fishes taken, together with such notes upon 
them as seem to have some permanent value. On account of its northern position the 
State of Michigan has comparatively few kinds of fishes. The number of species enu- 
merated m the following list is proportionally still smaller, for the reason that the 
bodies of water examined in 1888 have all essentially the same characters with respect 
to temperature and nature of bottom (usually fine mud or pulverent vegetable matter), 
as well as to the flora and fauna. A set of the fishes collected has been placed in the 
U. S. National Museum at Washington. The invertebrates have not yet been studied. 
The places visited may be divided according to the river basins into three princi- 
pal groups, as follows: 
I.— THE ST. JOSEPH SYSTEM. 
1. Long Lake, Kalamazoo County, situated about 7 miles south of Kalamazoo. 
Length, 2 miles; width, three-quarters of a mile; greatest depth, 42 feet; surface tem- 
perature, 73° to 74°; bottom temperature, 52° to 53°; date of examination, July 8 to 
11.* The southern parts of this lake have gravelly and sandy shores, while those of the 
northern parts are marshy, and the lake is diversified by patches of bulrushes, Potamo- 
geton, and other aquatic plants. 
2. Austin Lake, Kalamazoo County, about a quarter of a mile from Long Lake and 
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