Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ==================================================================== UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Volume 11, No. 6, pp. 345-400, 2 plates, 2 figs. in text, 10 tables ---------------------- May 6, 1959 ------------------------- Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties, Kansas BY ARTIE L. METCALF UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE 1959 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch, Robert W. Wilson Volume 11, No. 6, pp. 345-400, 2 plates, 2 figs. in text, 10 tables Published May 6, 1959 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas A CONTRIBUTION FROM THE STATE BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF KANSAS PRINTED IN THE STATE PRINTING PLANT TOPEKA, KANSAS 1959 27-7079 Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties, Kansas BY ARTIE L. METCALF CONTENTS PAGE Introduction 347 Physical characteristics of the streams 351 Climate 351 Present flora 353 History 354 Conservation 357 Previous ichthyological collections 357 Acknowledgments 358 Materials and methods 358 Collecting stations 359 Annotated list of species 362 Fishes of doubtful or possible occurrence 383 Faunal comparisons of different streams 384 Distributional variations within the same stream 387 Faunas of intermittent streams 390 East-west distribution 392 Summary 394 Literature cited 397 INTRODUCTION