NO. 7 TROTECTIVE ADAPTATIONS McATEE IQI 



Needham, James G. ; Jupay, Ciiancey; Moore, Emmemne; Stbi.ky, Chas. K. ; 



AND TiTCOMB, JOHN W. 



1922. A biological survey of Lake George, N. Y. N. Y. State Conserv. 

 Comm., 78 pp., 27 figs. Much on the food of fishes ; the staples of 

 the diet of carnivorous fry are waterfleas, midges (all stages), 

 other insects, scuds (amphipods), and crayfishes; cannibalism 

 prevalent (p. 63) ; food of adults of eight species outlined on pp. 

 65-68. Lake trout: Principal food, lake smelt, other items yellow 

 perch, and caddisfiies ; black bass : Perch, crawfish, grasshoppers, 

 scuds ; pike : Other fishes ; yellow perch : Staples, midge larvae, 

 mayfly nymphs, scuds, snails, secondary, caddisworms and water- 

 fleas ; bullhead : Scuds, midge larvae, mayfly nymphs, snails ; long- 

 eared sunfish: Mayfly nymphs, midge larvae, ants, scuds, water- 

 fleas, miscellaneous insects, and crayfishes ; common sunfish : Snails, 

 mayfly nymphs, caddisworms, beetles, midge larvae, various insects ; 

 rock bass : Crayfish, fishes, insects. 



Needham, P. R. 



1929. Quantitative studies of the fish food supply in selected areas. Suppl. 

 i8th Ann. Rep. New York Conserv. Dep. 1928, pp. 220-232. Ithaca, 

 N. Y., Erie-Niagara watershed. Foods consumed by trout in com- 

 parison with available foods ; in the case of aquatic foods the re- 

 lation of consumption to availability is very clear. This is a 

 reworking of a similar paper in the 17th Ann. Rep. (1927) 1928, 

 pp. 192-206. 



New York Conservation Department. 



1928. A biological survey of the Oswego River System. Suppl. 17th Ann. 

 Rep. New York Conserv. Dep. 1927, 248 pp., 12 col. pis., text figs., 

 maps. Much on fish food ; in a tabulation of food items of adults 

 of 31 species, midges, mayflies, and minnows seem to be most 

 commonly used ; and of young of eight species, copepods, Cladocera, 

 and midges. 



Page, Wm. F. 



1895. Feeding and rearing fishes, particularly trout, under domestication. 

 Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 1894, pp. 289-314. Some notes on natural 

 food, and an indexed bibliography. 



Patterson, A. H. 



1926- 1 927. Food of the Sturgeon. Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc, 

 vol. 12, pp. 380-381. Stomach of one contained a!)out 729 small 

 fish (lesser sandlaunces). 



Pearse, a. S. 



1915. On the food of the small shore fishes in the waters near Madison, 

 Wisconsin. Bull. Wisconsin Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 13, no. i, pp. 7-22, 

 I fig.. Mar. Sixteen species, of which nine lived largely on insects 

 and their larvae, two on ostracods, two on copepods, and one on 

 Cladocera. 



191 8. The food of the shore fishes of certain Wisconsin lakes. Bull. U. S. 



Bur. Fisheries, vol. 35 (1915-16), pp. 249-292. Report on more 

 than 1,600 specimens of 32 species, with bibliography. 



1919. Habits of the black crappie in inland lakes of Wisconsin. Rep. U. S. 



Comm. Fisheries 1918, app. 3, pp. S-16. Tabulation of contents of 

 276 stomachs. 



