SCIENTIFIC HISTORY OF THE ELACK BASS. 27 



beyond his predecessors, (1) recognizing, for tlie first time, the generic 

 identity of the forms described by LeSueur, Cuvier and Valenciennes, 

 and DeKay, (2) retaining for the genus thus enhirged the name 

 Grystes, and (3) recognizing two species as inhabitants of the north ; 

 he was, however, less fortunate in his appreciation of their sjx'cific 

 relations, (1) his Grystes fasciatas being the small-mouthed form, (2) 

 his " Grystes salmuneus " (as is evident from the contrasted charac- 

 ters noticed in his comparison of G. fusciatus with it) being the 

 large-mouthed southern form, and (3) his Grystes nigricans being 

 difterentiated without statement of reasons and the Centrarchns fas- 

 ciatiis of DeKay identified with it. 



At a later period (1854), Prof. Agassiz distinguished specimens 

 of the genus obtained from Huntsville,* Alabama, as Grystes nobilis, 

 which evidently belongs to the large-mouthed type ; the brief notice 

 is only comparative, contrasted with the small-mouthed type, and 

 contains no specific peculiarities. 



Ill the same year and month (^March, 1854), Messrs. Baird and 

 Girardf described specimens of the same type from the " Rio Frio 

 and Rio Nueces, Texas," under the name Grystes nuecensis. This 

 form was subsequently described in greater detail and illustrated by 

 Dr. Charles Girard, in the Report on the Mexican boundary Survey. 



In 1857, Dr. Theodatus Garlick,:j; of Cleveland, Ohio, in a treatise 

 on the propagation of fish, described and published rough woodcut 

 figures of the two forms of the genus: (l)'the small-mouthed species 

 under the name "Grystes nigricans ; or black bass;" (2) the other, 

 as a new species, designated "Grystes megastoma ; or large-mouth 



and Animals, compared with those of other and similar regions. . . . Boston; 

 1&50. (p. 295.) 



=•= Agassiz (Louis). Notice of a collection of Fishes from the southern bend 

 of the Tennessee River, Alabama. . . <The American Journal of Science and 

 Arts, second series. Vol. xvii. . . . 18;54. [pp. 297-308; 3o3-365=Grystes, pp. 297, 

 298]. 



t Baikd (Spencer FuUerton) and Charles Giraed. Descriptions of new 

 species of Fishes collected in Texas, New Mexico, and Sonorn,by Mr. John H. 

 Clark, on the U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, and in Texas bj' Capt. 

 Stewart Van Vliet, U. S. A. . . .<Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences of Philadelphia. Vol. vii, 1854, 1855. [pp. 24-29; Grystes, p. 25]. 



X Garlick (Tlieodatus). A treatise on the Artificial Propagation of certain 

 kinds of Fish, with the descriptions of such kinds as are the most suitable for 

 pisciculture. . . . Cleveland, Tho. Brown, publisher, Ohio Farmer office, 1857. 

 [12mo, 142 pp. Grystes, pp. 105-110.] 



