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rope, where this species, or a close ally, has long been a favor- 

 ite in the market. 



DID HENDRIK HUDSON FIND SALMON IN THE HUDSON RIVER? 



The authority of Ilendrik Hudson's journal is cited to prove 

 the former existence of salmon in th.e Hudson River, and as 

 an argument in favor of the feasibility of stocking its waters 

 with this fish. Mr. J. Carson Brevoort, of Brooklyn,- a gentle- 

 man of great research in such matters, maintains, however, 

 the fish referred to by Hudson is really the weak-fish, or sque- 

 teague (Otolithus regalis), as it was taken in large numbers 

 by this early voyager in the middle of September, in seines, 

 somewhere in the lower part of the bay, and at a time when 

 and place where no true salmon could be thus captured. An 

 inexperienced observer might very easily call a weak-fish a 

 salmon, the general resemblance being so close that the name 

 of salmon-trout is, even now, generally applied to the South- 

 ern variety of the weak-fish. The pike-perch, or wall-eyed 

 perch {Lucioperca america?ia), is also called salmon in the 

 Susquehanna River, with much less resemblance to the genu- 

 ine article than the weak-fish. 



BLACK BASS IN THE POTOMAC. 



It is well known to naturalists that the black bass, now so 

 common in the Potomac River, and furnishing so much sport 

 to the angler, as well as constituting so valuable an article 

 of food, is not indigenous, but has been transferred from oth- 

 er waters. The species of this genus (Grystes) belong to the 

 waters of the Mississippi Valley and of the great lakes, but 

 on the Atlantic coast were originally restricted to the region 

 south of the James River the Potomac, Susquehanna, Dela- 

 ware, Hudson, and other great streams of the Middle and 

 Northern States being without them. They have been trans- 

 ferred to many localities, both streams and ponds, and it is 

 likely that before a great while they will be well known 

 throughout this country, as it is even proposed to carry them 

 to California. Controversy has lately arisen as to the person 

 to whom is due the credit of the first introduction of this fish 

 into the Potomac, the honor being assigned by some to Dr. 

 Eoff, of Wheeling, and by others to Mr. William Schriver. 

 The question, however, can be readily determined by refer- 



