. The natural history of Washington territory, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude, being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific railroad route, containing the climate and physical geography, with full catalogues and descriptions of the plants and animals collected from 1853 to 1857 . J .del. ZOOLOGY. 363 be taken with the hook at Vancouver, and probably also in other parts of the waters of theColumbia. No notes of its colors when fresh are preserved,
. The natural history of Washington territory, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude, being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific railroad route, containing the climate and physical geography, with full catalogues and descriptions of the plants and animals collected from 1853 to 1857 . J .del. ZOOLOGY. 363 be taken with the hook at Vancouver, and probably also in other parts of the waters of theColumbia. No notes of its colors when fresh are preserved, but they did not diifer much fromthe colors in alcohol, unless in wanting reddish on the back. The figure is of the size oflife.—C. PTYCHOCHEILUS OREGONENSIS, Grd. Oregon Cojp. Plate LXIV, Figs. 5—9. Sp. Ch.—Body sub-fusiform in iirofile. Head rather small, elongated; contained four times and a half in the totallengih; snout slender. Mouth deeply cleft; posterior extremity of maxillary extending to a vertical line intersecting almost theanterior rim of the pupil. Eye of moderate development; its diameter entering about five times in the length of the side of thehead. Anterior margin of dorsal fin equidistant between the extremity of the snout and the fork of the caudal. Pectoral andventral fins rather small. SvN.—Cyprinus{Leuciscus) s. Faun. Bor. Amer. Ill, 1836, 3(15. Ptychocheilu
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