The number of orange-throated darters remained constant at Areas 1 and 3, and the number of stonecats changed little in successive collections from Area 3.
Because no others ever have been found in the mainstream of the Neosho River, I suspect that my specimen is a "stray" from one of the smaller tributaries, where channel darters are locally common.
A limited number of orange-throated dartersprobably survived in the few permanent pools in the upper Neosho and provided the brood-stock necessary to repopulate this section of the stream.
Mountain-fishes; as the brook trout and many of the darters and minnows.
The falls of the Cumberland limit the range of most of the larger fishes of the river, but the streams above it have their quota of darters and minnows.
Leon Vaillant has written on various groups of fishes, his monograph of the American darters (Etheostominae) being a masterpiece so far as the results of the study of relatively scanty material would permit.
It was all owing to his mistake, he publicly confessed, in having made choice of a confined space wherein neither cavalry nor darters could avail.
Both armies were therefore ranged in battle order on the open space beyond the walls, higher up the slope of Epipolæ; Gylippus placing his cavalry and darters to the right of his line, on the highest and most open ground.
Unlike otherdarters taken in this survey, the orangethroat darter was common to abundant at several stations and was found at a great many more stations than any other darter.
Slenderhead darters were scarce, and were found only over gravel bottoms.
During June numerous young and adult orangethroat darters were taken in Cedar Creek, in partly decayed leaves which lined the banks.
At station C-11 a few darters were taken on rubble riffles; however, large numbers were found inhabiting thick mats of Potamogeton foliosus Raf.
Channel darters were collected over bottoms of rubble or gravel, both in flowing streams and in isolated pools.
On August 24, prolonged drought had drastically altered the stream and all areas from which stonerollers and darters had been taken were dry.
On September 1 at this station the stream was intermittent, but even the tiniest pools abounded with young darters and stonerollers.
On June 15 in Otter Creek young darters were abundant in streamside detritus and in clear, shallow, rubble riffles.
Many darters (Etheostoma spectabile pulchellum and Percina phoxocephala) were taken in September along gravelly banks at stations C-2 and C-3 by disturbing small rocks and leaf-litter along the shores.
These fishes have "become dwarfed and concentrated, taking the place in their respective habitats which the darters occupy in the waters of the Mississippi valley.
The dartersare small, perch-like fishes, which seldom exceed a length of six inches, the average being about three.
Thy feyther eddicated his darters to marry gentlefoälk, and see what's coomed on it.
The kingfish, Menticirrhus, differs in lacking the air-bladder, and lying on the bottom in shallow water the lower fins are enlarged much as in the darters or gobies.
The differences in these and other regards which distinguish the darters are features of degradation, and they are also no doubt of relatively recent acquisition.
First among the darters because largest in size, most perch-like in structure, and least degenerate, we place the king darter, Percina rex of the Roanoke River in Virginia.
The dwarf perches, called darters (Etheostominæ), are especially characteristic of the clear streams to the eastward of the plains of the Missouri.
In the other darters the body is more compressed, the movements less active, the coloration even more brilliant in the males, which are far more showy than their dull olivaceous mates.
They lie quiet on the bottom and move very quickly when disturbed much after the manner of darters and gobies.
All the dartersare carnivorous, feeding chiefly on the larvæ of Diptera, and in their way voracious.
These fishes and the darters (Etheostominæ) are, among American fishes, the groups best suited for the study of local problems in distribution.
No fossil forms nearly allied to the darters are on record.
Often, ten to fifteen johnny darters were taken with one sweep of a 6- or 12-foot seine in shallow pools having mud bottoms.
The johnny darter, like the common shiner, has been taken recently only in Rock Creek, where darters flourish.
Mixed flocks of scores of cormorants and darters covered certain trees, both at sunset and after sunrise.
Thomas Hutter wasn't Thomas Hutter, and his darters weren't his darters!
You'll find your darters right glad to see you, and here's Hetty come herself to say as much in her own behalf.
The color of the darters varies greatly with the different kinds.
There are many interesting facts which may be learned from the Johnny darters when kept alive in an aquarium.
His cavalry, powerfully aided by the intermingled darters and light troops from Thessaly, broke and routed the enemy’s cavalry opposed to them, and then restraining themselves from pursuit, turned to fall upon the phalanx of infantry.
He farther mingled in their ranks some active footmen, dartersand slingers, of whom he had many from Thessaly and the Maliac Gulf.
And Missus Winterose and her darters minds the house.
This is especially true among fishes of the coral reefs, though species scarcely less brilliant are found among the darters of our American brooks.
Unlike the sunfishes anddarters are the catfishes, composing a great family, the Siluridae.
Another family of many species especially common in the clear, swift, and strong Eastern rivers is that of the darters and perches.
The darters are little slender-bodied fishes which lie motionless on the bottom, moving like a flash when disturbed and slipping under stones out of sight of their enemies.
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