THE PERCHES 



THE perch family consists of many- 

 species, about one hundred and twenty, 

 and includes numerous minnows, 

 mainly those commonly called "dar- 

 ters," little fellows which are distributed widely in 

 the waters of this continent, but only five or six 

 forms are indigenous to New England and Canada. 

 Of the larger perches, we find in our home waters 

 only the pike-perches (two species) and the yellow 

 perch (one species). The fish popularly called the 

 white perch is relegated to a different family — 

 the sea basses (Serranidcz) — by ichthic authority, 

 and as such will be treated on subsequent pages. 



The pike-perch is generally called the wall-eyed 

 pike in the East, and simply pike in many of the 

 Western States, where the true pike is known as 

 the pickerel. Glass-eye is also another Eastern 

 name for it, and in many sections it bears the local 

 nomenclature of yellow pike, blue pike, jack sal- 

 mon, and white-eye ; in Canada it is known as the 

 dory or dore (because of its golden hue). The 

 scientific name of Stizostedion vitreum completes 

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