FISHES OP NEW YORK 505 



equal to their base; air bladder and pseudobranchiae present, 

 rudimentary; vertebrae (P. caprodes) 23+2144. General 

 pattern of coloration olivaceous, with dark vertical bands alter- 

 nately long and short. Size largest of the darters, approach- 

 ing that of A s p r o , a genus to which it is more nearly related 

 than the other darters are. 



247 Percina caprodes (Rafmesque) 

 Log Perch; Hogmolty 



Sciaena caprodes RAFINESQUE, Am. Month. Mag. 534, 1818, fide JORDAN & 



EVERMANN. 

 Ethcostoma caprodes RAFINESQUE, Ichth. Ohien, 38, 1820; STORER, Syn. 



Fish. N. A. 18, 1846; BEAN, Fishes Penna. 122, pi. 33, fig. 68, 1893. 

 Pilcoma semifasciatum DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 16, pi. 50, fig. 162, 



1842; GXJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. I, 76, 1859. 

 Percina caprodes JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, IT. S. Nat. Mus. 499, 1883; 



EVERMANN & KENDALL, Kept. U. S. F. C. for 1894, 602, 1896; JORDAN & 



EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1026, 1896, pi. OLXV, fig. 436, 



436a, 1900. 



Body long, moderately compressed; head long, with pointed 

 snout; mouth small, the lower jaw not reaching near to tip of 

 snout, and the maxilla not extending to the front of the eye. 

 The head forms one fourth of the total length without the 

 caudal, and the depth equals about one sixth. Scales on cheeks 

 and gill covers, also on the space before the first dorsal; breast 

 scaleless. A row of enlarged plates on the belly, which are 

 sometimes deciduous. Fins moderately low and rather long. 

 D. XV, 15; A. II, 9. Lateral line with 92 scales. Color green- 

 ish yellow; sides with about 15 dark cross bands, extending 

 from back to belly; alternating with these above the lateral 

 line are fainter bars. Fins barred. A black spot at the base 

 of the caudal. 



The log perch, hogfish, hogmolly, rockfish or crawl-a-bottom 

 is found in the Great lakes region, Quebec and the eastern states 

 south to Virginia, also in the Mississippi valley south to Ala- 

 bama and Texas. De Kay obtained it at Westport on Lake 

 Champlain, where it appeared to be very abundant, as well as 

 in many streams in that vicinity. Its local name there he gives 

 as little pickerel or pickerel, which it shared in common with 



