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with many vertical greenish bands, which are sometimes chain-like. The dark 

 blotch of the soft dorsal is often indistinct in the young. In very old individuals 

 the belly is often coppery red. 



104. Sunfish ; Pumpkin Seed (Ilupomotis gibbosus Linnaeus). 



Morone maculata MITCHILL, Report in Part, 19, 1814. 



Pomotis rulgaris DfiKAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 31, pi. 51, 166, 1842. 



Lepomis gibbosus MEEK, Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci., IV, 313, 1888; BEAN, Fishes Penna., 115, 



pi. 32, fig. 65, 1893. 



Eupomotis aurcus MATHER, App. i2th Kept. Adirondack Surv. N. Y., 7, 1886. 

 Eitpomotis gibbosus JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1009, 1896, pi. 



CLXI, fig. 429, 1900; BEAN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, 364, 1897; MEARNS, 



Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., X, 320, 1898; EUGENE SMITH, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y. 



1897, 35, 1898; BEAN, 52d Ann. Kept. N. Y. State Mus., 104, 1900. 



SUNFISH. 



The Common Sunfish, or Sunny, Pumpkin Seed, Bream, Tobacco Box, and Pond 

 Fish is one of the best known fishes of the United States. 



It is found from Maine westward through the Great Lakes region to Minnesota 

 and in the Eastern States south to South Carolina. In western rivers, however, it is 

 seldom found south of the latitude of Chicago. In New York the Sunfish abounds 

 almost everywhere, in the lowlands as well as the highlands and in brackish as well 

 as fresh waters ; it has even been taken occasionally in salt water on Long Island. 

 Large individuals have been received from Canandaigua Lake and from lakes in the 

 Adirondacks. Dr. Meek found it very common throughout the Cayuga Lake basin. 



