Note 255 — APPENDIX

Of this singular fish, I received circumstantial accounts at the Post of Arkansa. It also exists in the Ohio, and is the Platyrostra edentula of Lesueur, described in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. i. part 2, pp. 227, 228, and 229, and allied to the Polyodon of Lacepède. The plain description of this very local and curious animal, affords additional evidence, if it were necessary, of the truth of the relations of Garcilassa de la Vega, notwithstanding the scepticism of some of the later French writers.—Nuttall.