AMERICAN PIKE-PERCH. 107 



Cuvier enumerates two additional Russian 

 species, which seem first to have been noticed by 

 Pallas. The one, from the Volga, has received 

 the specific appellation of Volgensis, and rests on 

 the authority of Pallas alone, Cuvier not having 

 seen a specimen. The other, L. marina^ Cuvier 

 and ValencienneSy found in the Black Sea, pos- 

 sesses a flesh firm, white, and of great delicacy. 

 This, as a species, seems also yet imperfectly 

 known. America possesses another of a greenish 

 yellow, or spotted over with blackish, and is 

 the Lucioperca Americana^ Cuvier. 



