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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 (Eupouiotis gibhosns Linnaeus). 



Morone maculata Mitchill, Report in Part, 19, 1S14. 



Pomofis vulgaris DeKay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 31, pi. 51, 166, 1842. 



Lepomis gibbostis Meek, Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci., IV, 313, i888; Bean, Fishes Penna., i r5, 



pi. 32, fig. 65, 1893. 

 Eupotnotis aureus Mather, App. 12th Rept. Adirondack Surv. N. Y.,. 7, 1886. 

 Eupomotis gibbosus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mas., 1009, 1896, pi. 



CLXI, fig. 429, 1900; Bean, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, 364, 1897; Mearns, 



Bull. .\m. .Mus. Nat. Hist., X, 320, 1898; Eugene Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y. 



1897, 35, 1898; Bean, S2d .\nn. Rept. N. Y. State Mus., 104, 1900. 



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SUNI'ISH. 



The Common .Sunfish, or Sunny, Pumpkin Seed, Bream, Tobacco Bo.x, 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 indi\iduals have been received from Canandaigua Lake and from lakes in the 

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



