300 



Percoidea, or Perch-like Fishes 



into the Sacramento. The perch eats the young catfish, and 

 its stomach is torn by their sharp pectoral spines. Another 



FIG. 235. Blue-Gill, Lepomis pattidus (Mitchill). Potomac River. 



species of this type is the warmouth (Ch&nobryttus gulosus] 

 of the ponds of the South, and still more familiar rock-bass 



FIG. 236. Long-eared Sunfish, Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque). From Clear 

 Creek, Bloomington, Indiana. Family Centrarchidoe. 



or redeye (Ambloplites rupestris) of the more northern lakes 

 and rivers valued as a game- and food-fish. A very pretty 



