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bass, hog bass, yellow perch, black perch, trout perch, streaked 

 head, white trout and brown trout. In the southern states the 

 small-mouth is known as the trout, perch and jumper. In Ala- 

 bama it is called mountain trout. Some persons style it the- 

 bronze backer. The most appropriate name and the one by 

 which it is best known is that of black bass or small mouthed 

 black bass. 



This species is indigenous to the upper parts of the St Law- 

 rence basin, the Great lakes region and the basin of the Mis- 

 sissippi. East of the Alleghanies it is native to the headwaters 

 of the Ocmulgee and Chattahoochee rivers, but north of these 

 streams, though not originally an inhabitant of the waters, it 

 has been widely distributed by artificial introduction. 



In the St Lawrence river Evermann and Bean obtained the 

 fish 3 miles below Ogdensburg N. Y. July 17, 1894, evidently the 

 young of the year, as the specimen is If inches long. In Scioto- 

 creek at Coopersville N. Y. they secured an example If inches 

 long July 19, 1894. Field assistants of the U. S. Fish Commission, 

 collecting in the Lake Ontario region of New York in 1894 andl 

 preceding years, took specimens in the following localities. 



Big Stony creek, Henderson Harbor 



Mouth Salmon river, Selkirk 



Marsh creek. Point Breeze 



Four mile creek, Nine Mile point, Webster. 



Wart creek 



Black river, Huntingtonville 



Cape Vincent 



Mouth Little Salmon creek 



Great Sodus bav 



Sandy creek. North Hamlin 

 • Long pond, Charlotte 



Meek did not find this species in the vicinity of Ithaca. Near- 

 Cayuga and Montezuma it is less common than the large- 

 mouthed black bass. Mather reported the species in Racquette, 

 Forked, White, Fourth, Bisby and Sucker lakes, Black and' 

 Moose rivers, and in Partlo pond, St Lawrence county, in all of 



