382 SEVENTH REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



The Butter fish ranges from Mahie to South CaroHna, and is gradually replaced 

 southward by the Long-finned Harvest fish, Rhombus paru. It is a summer visitor, 

 associated with the Mackerel. DeKay records it in New York Bay July i, and 

 obtained it from fyke nets in New York Harbor as late as October 12. We seined 

 young examples at Blue Point Life-saving station October 7, and others were secured 

 September 30 at Oak Island Beach. It is taken chiefly in pound nets, and has 

 recently become a highly prized market fish. A few years ago it was little esteemed 

 The young are to be found in the summer months swimming at the surface in shel- 

 tered bays and frequently under the shelter of the streamers of Jelly fishes, where 

 they are sometimes destroj^ed by the lasso cells of their host. 



The Harvest fish is present in Gravesend Bay from April to November. Adults 

 were taken at Southampton Beach August i and August 3, 1898. The fish was not 

 found in Great South Bay during the summer and fall of 1898. 



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BUTTER FISH. 



97. Crappie (Poiiioxis mnntlaris Rafinesque). 



Pomoxis anmilaris Bean, Fishes Penna., 103, pi. 30, fig. 59, 1893; Jord.\x & Ever- 

 MANN", Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 987, 1896, pi. CLIV, fig. 415, 1900. 



Color clear silvery olive, the sides mottled with dark greenish blotches. On the 

 upper part of the body are traces of narrow vertical bars. The dorsal and caudal 

 are mottled, but the anal is usually uniform pale. 



Among the many names which have been applied to the Crappie are: Bachelor, 

 Newlight, Campbellite, Sac-a-lait, Bridge Perch, Strawberry Perch, Chinquapin Perch, 

 Speckled Perch, Tin Perch, Goggle-eye, John Demon, Shad, White Croppie and Tim- 

 ber Croppie. 



