26 "BOOK OF THE BT.ACK BASS, 



completely failed to recognize the relations of tlie two. (1) In 1828 

 (tome second, pp. 124-12(3) they described the hirge-mouihed species 

 as a new generic type (under the name Huro ni</ricauN), but, misled 

 by an injury to the spinous portion of the dorsal fin (and apparently 

 the los-s of tiic seventh spine), they ranked it in their group of Per- 

 coids witii two dorsal fins, attributing to it a first dorsal witli six 

 sj:)ines, and a second with two spines in front (instead of ten dorsal 

 spines). (2) In the following year (1829) and volume (tome troisieme, 

 j)p. 54-58), they described the small-mouthed species, identifying it 

 with the Lahrus salmnides of Lacepude, and forming for it (and at 

 the same time associating with it an Australian fish) the genus Grys- 

 tes: this was referred to the section of Percoids with a single dorsal 

 fin and placed after Ceniroprintes and before Rhypiicus. The de- 

 scriptions of both species (after making allowance for the error in- 

 duced by the state of the dorsal in Huro) were quite good, and es- 

 pecially in the case of Gri/sies salmuides, much better than any sub- 

 sequently published, and they can consequently be identified without 

 difficulty. 



Subsequently, Dr. DeKay, in his "Zoology of New York,"* re- 

 produced the figures and (in a modified form) the descriptions of 

 the two species from Cavier and Valenciennes' work; but, failing to 

 identify them, redescribed and refigured one of them (Grystes sal- 

 moicles) under two names {Centrarchus fasdatvs=^CichIa fasciata 

 Les., and Centrarchus ohscnrvs DeKay, n. sp.). Of course all were 

 adopted by Dr. Storer in his " Synopsis of the Fishes of North Amer- 

 ica."f In those works, therefore, the species stand under three generic 

 and four .specific names. 



In 1850, Prof. Agassiz, in his " Lake Superior,";!: decidedly advanced 



* DeKay (James E. . .). Zoology of New York, or tlie New York Fauna ; 

 comprising detailed descriptions of all the animals liithevto observed within 

 tlie State of New York, with brief notices of those occasionally fouTid near its 

 borders, antl accompanied l)y appropriate illustrations. By James E. DeKay. 

 Part IV. Fishes.— Albany ; printed by W. & A. White & J. Vis.scher. 1842. 

 [4to, xiv [1, errata], 415 pp.; atlas, 1 p. 1., 79 p. 1]. 



tSTOREK (David Ilumphrcj-s). ASynopsisof the Fishes of North America. 

 <Menioirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. New series. 

 Vol. 11. (Cambridge, 1846), pp. 25;?-r)50. 



A synopsis of tlie Fishes of North America. . . . (Cambridge: Metcalf and 



Company, printers to the University. ISIG. [4to, 1 p. 1. (= title ), 2f)s pp.] 



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