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The nest was guarded by a male 6 inches long, who was so gentle 

 that we could reach out a hand to within three feet of him before 

 he moved away. Eggs taken to the laboratory hatched May 3 and 4. 

 Both eggs and newly hatched fry are even smaller than those of the 

 blue-gill sunfish; and the great transparency of the new fry, along 

 with their small size, makes it very difficult to see them in an aqua- 

 rium. 



Warmouth Bass* {Chccnohryttus giilosits) 



May 23, 191 1, a dozen nests of this species were found in a cir- 

 cle of ten feet radius about the base of a large willow-tree in Deep 

 Slough, in water 6 to 10 inches deep. The bottom was sand and 

 mud, almost free of vegetation, but pretty well covered with fine 

 dead twigs and dead leaves. The nests were very small, onlv 4 to 6 

 inches across in most cases, and of irregular shape ; and all bore 

 evidence of being very quickly and carelessly made, as compared with 

 iiests of bluegills and bass. Many of them would scarcely be rec- 

 ognized as nests if the male were not seen over them or a glimpse 

 obtained of the white specks that indicate fungused eggs. There was 

 practically no excavation of the soil of the bottom, merely the looser 

 trash and leaves being brushed away, and not always all of that. 

 Some of the males were exceedingly gentle, allowing us to touch 

 them with a 30-inch pipette before moving away. We found no 

 bluegill so gentle as this. Some of the nests contained new fry with 

 yolk sac still large ; others were full of eggs nearly ready to hatch. 

 Eggs from these nests taken to the laboratory hatched during the 

 night of May 23-24. Two nests containing fry with yolk sac nearly 

 gone, were found in a similar situation in Lynch Slough May 26, 

 1911. 



Orange-spotted Suneish (Lcpomis huuiilis) 



A male and female of this species, in breeding color, were ob- 

 served May 23, 191 1, in Quiver Marshes over what appeared to be 

 a freshly excavated nest in water 18 inches deep. They would oc- 

 casionally swim a short distance off, but always returned to the same 

 place. 



Rather late spawning was indicated in 1 910 by the taking, July 7, 

 at the head of Liverpool Lake, of males in full color and females 

 heavy with eggs. 



*Called goggle-eye at Havana. 



