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ARTIE L. METCALF

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF STREAMS

CLIMATE

Table 1.—Cubic Feet Per Second of Water Discharged at Gauging Stations in Chautauqua, Elk, Montgomery, and Cowley Counties for Years Prior to 1951.

Table 2.—Monthly Means of Daily Discharge in Cubic Feet per Second for Big Caney River at Elgin, Kansas

PRESENT FLORA

HISTORY

Table 3.—Sewage Disposal Facilities in Some South-central Kansas Communities.

CONSERVATION

PREVIOUS ICHTHYOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS

Table 4.—Collections Made by Dr. Frank B. Cross of the State Biological Survey in 1955.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

MATERIALS AND METHODS

COLLECTING STATIONS

ANNOTATED LIST OF SPECIES

FISHES OF DOUBTFUL OR POSSIBLE OCCURRENCE

FAUNAL COMPARISONS OF DIFFERENT STREAMS

Table 5.—Species of Fishes Collected and Number of Stations in Each Stream System at Which Each Species Was Found.

DISTRIBUTIONAL VARIATIONS WITHIN THE SAME STREAM

Table 6.—Relative Abundance in Per Cent of Fishes in Collections From Three Stream Segments.

FAUNAS OF INTERMITTENT STREAMS

Table 7.—Percentages of Fishes Taken on Crab Creek.

Table 8.—Fish Taken in Nine Pools on Upper Beaver Creek (Progressing From Downstream to Upstream).

Table 9.—Fishes Taken in a Tributary of Grouse Creek.

EAST-WEST DISTRIBUTION

Table 10.—Present Westernmost Records of Some Fishes in the Arkansas River Basin in Kansas.

SUMMARY

LITERATURE CITED

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