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SEVENTH REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AXD GAME COMMISSION. 



The Rock Bass bites very freely and is a fair game fish and excellent for the 

 table. It fights vigorously, but its endurance is not great. Suitable baits are white 

 grubs, crickets, grasshoppers, Crawfish and small Minnows. Common earthworms 

 are also successfully used. 



100. Warmouth ; Goggle-eye [Chcoiobrytius gulosus Cuv. & Val.). 



Chceiiobryttus gulosus Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 468, 1883 ; Jordan & 

 EvERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 992, 1896, pi. CLVII, fig. 421, 1900. 



The Warmouth inhabits the eastern United States from the Great Lakes 

 to South Carolina and Texas, ranging west to Kansas and Iowa. It occurs chiefly 

 west or south of the Alleghanies. The fish reaches a length of 10 inches and is a 



WARMOUTH. 



food species of some importance. It is extremely voracious and, consequently, a 

 favorite for angling. In form and color it varies greatly. 



Color in life clear olive green, clouded with darker, usually without red or blue ; 

 a dusky spot on each scale more or less distinct ; vertical fins mottled with dusky ; a 

 faint spot on last rays of dorsal bordered by paler ; three oblique dusky bars radiat- 

 ing from eye ; belly yellowish. 



lOi. Green Sunfish ; Red-eye {Apoiiiotis cyancllus Rafinesque). 



Lepomis cyanellus Bean, Fishes Penna., no, pi. 31, fig. 6r, 1893 ; Meek, Ann. N. Y. Ac. 



Sci., IV, 313, 1888. 

 Apomotis cyanellus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. .S. Nat. Mus., 996, 1896. 



The Blue-spotted Sunfish, also known as the Green Sunfish and Red-eye, extends 

 from the Great Lakes region, throughout the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys south to 



