Percoidea, or Perch-like Fishes 



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"perch" of the Sacramento. The latter is a large and gamy 

 fish, valued as food and interesting as being the only fresh- 



Fro. 233. Rock Bass, Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque.) Ecorse, Mich. 



water fish of the nature of perch or bass native to the west of 

 the Rocky Mountains. The numbers of this species, according 



FIG. 234. Banded Sunfish, Mesogonistius chcetodon (Baird). Delaware River. 



to Mr. Will S. Green of Colusa, California, have been greatly 

 reduced by the introduction of the catfish (Ameiums nebuhsus) 



