158 Bass, Pike, and Perch 



erel." However, the names pike-perch and wall- 

 eyed pike have been rather universally adopted, 

 and it will probably be always known by these 

 names. Pike-perch is the Anglicized form of 

 Lucioperca, the Latin name of the genus in 

 Europe. 



It is abundant in Canada and the Great Lake 

 region, and fairly abundant in the upper Missis- 

 sippi River and its tributaries, and especially in 

 Lake Pepin. It is found also in the lake region 

 of northern Minnesota, and in the lakes and 

 streams of Wisconsin and Iowa. It is not un- 

 common in the upper Ohio River and tributaries, 

 south to Tennessee. On the Atlantic slope it is 

 more rarely found from Pennsylvania to Georgia, 

 where it often exists in brackish water. I have 

 taken it in my boyhood days at Ferry Bar, a 

 point on the Patapsco River, near Baltimore, 

 Maryland. Its range is being constantly ex- 

 tended by transplantation. The pike-perch is a 

 very trimly-built and shapely fish. Its body is 

 rather slender, not much compressed. The head 

 is well shaped, neither too large nor too small, 

 with a large mouth well filled with teeth, some 

 quite long and sharp. The eye is very large and 

 glassy. Like all the perches it has two dorsal 



