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iio. Yellow Perch; Ring Perch [Pcrca flavcsceiis Mitchill). 



Moroite flavesccns Mitchill, Report in Part, iS, 1814. 



Bodiaiiiis JJavcsiciis Mitchill, Trans. Lit. ^: Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 421, 1815. 



Fcica serrato-granulata DeKay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 5, pi. 22, fig. 64, 1842. 



Perca granulata DeKay, op. cit. 5, pi. 68, fig. 220, 1842. 



Perca acuta DeKay, op. cit. 6, pi. 68, fig. 222, 1842. 



P(-rca gracilis DeKay, op. cit. 6, 1842. 



Pcrca Jlavcscciis DeKay, op. cit. 3, pi. i, fig. i, 1842; Meek, Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci., IV, 

 314, 1888; Bean, Fishes Penna., 126, color pi. 12, 1893; Evermann & Kendall, 

 Rept. U. S. F. C. for 1894, 602, 1896; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 1023, 1896, pi. (H^XV, fig. 435, 1900; Bean, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, 

 365, 1897; Mearns, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., X, 320, 1S98; Eugene Smith, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N. Y. 1897, 37, 189S. 



\ KLl.UW PERCH. 



The Yellow' Perch, Ringed Perch, or Striped Perch is found throughout tlie 

 Great Lakes region, rivers and ponds of New England and northwestward, and in 

 streams east of the Alleghanies south to Georgia. It does not occur in the Ohio 

 Valley or southwest, though, after the construction of the Ohio Canal, Kirtland 

 recorded it from the Ohio River. In 1790 Dr. Mitchill transferred some of them 

 from Ronkonkoma to Success Pond, a distance of 40 miles, where they soon multi- 

 plietl. In 1825 Yellow Perch were transported from Skaneateles to Otisco Lake and 

 Onondaga Lake; in the latter they increased remarkably. In Otsego Lake DeKay 

 caught some weighing nearly 3 pounds. Meek states that the species is common 

 throughout the Cayuga Lake basin. Evermann and Bean took it in the St. Law- 

 rence River, 3 miles below Ogdensburg; also in Scioto Creek, Coopersville, N. Y., 

 July 19, 1894, young specimens i }i to \y{ inches long. 



