2 PERCA FLAVESCENS. 



PERCA FLAVESCENS. — Mitchill 



Plate I. Fig. 1. 



Specific Characters. Body above dusky tinted greenish-yellow, below gold- 

 en ; belly white ; six or eight dark, vertical bands descend from the back and dis- 

 appear at the belly ; ventral and anal fins orange-colour ; tongue smooth. D. 13 - 

 1-13. P. 15. V. 1-5. A. 2-8. C. 17. 



Synonymes. Morone flavescens, Mitch., Report in part, &c. 



Bodianus flavescens, Mitch., Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., vol. i. p. 421. 



Perca flavescens, Cuv., Reg. An., torn. ii. p. 133. 



Perca flavescens, Cuv. et Vol., Hist. Nat. Poiss., torn. ii. p. 46. 



Perca acuta, Cuv. et Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., torn. ii. p. 49, pi. 10. 



Perca granulata, Cuv. et Vol., Hist. Nat. Poiss., torn. ii. p. 48, pi. 9. 



Perca serrato-granulata, Cuv. et Vol., Hist. Nat. Poiss., torn. ii. p. 47. 



Perca gracilis, Cuv. et Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., torn. ii. p. 50. 



Perca flavescens. Rich., Faun. Boreal. Am., iii. p. 1, pi. 74. 



Perca acuta. Rich., Faun. Boreal. Am., iii. p. 4. 



Perca gracilis. Rich., Faun. Boreal. Am^, iii. p. 4. 



Perca flavescens, Storer, Report, &c., p. 5. 



Perca flavescens, DeKay, Zool. N. Y., part iii. p. 3, pi. 1, fig. 1. 



Perca granulata, DeKay, Zool. N. Y., part iii. p. 5, pi. 48, fig. 220. 



Perca serrato-granulata, DeKay, Zool. N. Y., part iii. p. 5. 



Perca acuta, DeKay, Zool. N. Y., part iii., p. 6. 



Perca gracilis, DeKay, Zool. N. Y., part iii. p. 6. 



Perca flavescens, Ayres, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., vol. iv. p. 250. 



Perca flavescens, Kirt., Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., vol. v. p. 337. 



Perca flavescens, Storer, Synops., p. 17. 



Red-finned Perch, Vulgo. 



Description. The form of this fish is elongated, moderately compressed, with 

 the dorsal outline arched, and somewhat gibbous in front of the dorsal fin, and 

 the ventral outline nearly straight. The head is large, sub-depressed above, or so 

 flattened as to make the facial outline slightly concave ; and the snout is full and 

 rounded. The anterior nostril, which is the smaller of the two, is round, and 



