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1921. Distribution and food of the fishes of Green Lake, Wis., in summer. 

 Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries, vol. 37, 1919-1920, pp. 255-272, i map. 

 Notes on 16 species ; the food of all combined comprised insect 

 larvae 21.7 per cent, amphipods 16.5 per cent, fish 9.6 per cent, 

 crayfishes 7.8 per cent, cladocerans 7.6 per cent, insect pupae 6.7 

 per cent, snails 4.4 per cent, bivalves 4.1 per cent, and the following 

 items in smaller proportions, adult insects, ostracods, oligochaetes, 

 leeches, mites, Mysis, and copepods. Sixty-seven per cent is arthro- 

 pods, composed of 31.7 insects and 35.6 crustaceans. Comparison 

 is made with the fishes of Lake Mendota. Bibliography. 



1924. Amount of food eaten by four species of fresh-water fishes. Ecology, 

 vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 254-258, July. Order of choice, minnows, earth- 

 worms, amphipods, dragonfly nymphs, crayfishes, grasshoppers, 

 snails, and caddis larvae. 

 Pear.se, a. S., and Achtenberg, Henrietta. 



1917-1918. Habits of yellow perch in Wisconsin Lakes. Bull. U. S. Bur. 

 Fisheries, vol. 36, 1917-1918, pp. 297-366, pi. 83, figs. 1-35. Report 

 on 1,147 stomach examinations of which the food as a whole was 

 made up of 38.3 per cent insect larvae, 21.4 Entomostraca, 9.5 insect 

 pupae and adults, 5.5 macroscopic crustaceans, 4.5 fishes, 2.4 mol- 

 lusks, 1.4 oligochaetes, leeches and arachnids. Enemies of the perch 

 include pickerel, black bass, a number of birds, and a variety of 

 parasites. Bibliography. 

 Pearson, John C. 



1928. Natural history and conservation of the redfish and other commercial 

 sciaenids of the Texas coast. Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries, vol. 44, 

 pp. 129-214, 44 figs. Sciaenops occllatus: Shrimps, crabs, mollusks, 

 fish; Pogonias cromis: Clams, mussels, oysters, crabs, shrimps, 

 fish, annelids; Cyiioscion nebulosus: Shrimps, crabs, fish; Micropo- 

 gon umhdatus: Shrimps, crabs, annelids, fish. 

 Peck, James L 



1894. On the food of the menhaden. Bull. U. S. Fish Conim., vol. 13, 1893, 

 pp. 1 13-126, pis. 1-8. Food filtered from water by gill-raker 

 mechanism, consists chiefly of unicellular organisms, both animal 

 and vegetable. They also take ostracods, copepods, amphipods and 

 other small Crustacea, and young Nereis. Composition of food the 

 same as material filtered from water by mechanical contrivances : 

 Diatoms, rotifers, dinoflagellates, etc. The supply of such food 

 illimitable. 



1896. The sources of marine food. Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 1895, pp. 351- 

 368, pis. 64-71. Plankton, largely diatoms, the basis; notes on 

 the food of the squeteague, the bluefish, sea bass, soup, and tautog. 

 Petersen, C. G. J. 



1894. On the biology of our fiat-fishes. Rep. Danish Biol. Sta., vol. 4. 

 1893, pp. v-|- 146,2 pis., I map, 18 tables. Notes on food of young 

 and adults. 

 Scott, Andrew. 



1899. Observations on the liabits and food of young fis'hcs. Proc. & Trans. 

 Liverpool Biol. Soc, vol. 13, 1898-99, pp. 90-93. 



