C H AFTER XII. 



LABRAX MULTILINEATUS. WHITE BASS, SOMETIMES 



CALLED WHITE PERCH. 



This is a beautiful fish, and is very abundant 

 in Lake Erie, and many of its tributaries. It is 

 not so large as the preceding species, rarely 

 weighing over two pounds. As an article of 

 food, it has but very few superiors, and gives 

 fine sport to the angler. 



The cut is a good representation of this fish 

 which is so well known as hardly to need a 

 description. 



Its color is light olive on its head and back, 

 sides silvery white, traversed by numerous inter- 

 rupted dark lines, the number varying in difierent 

 specimens. 



