358 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Of the iiiimerons names applied to members of the genus Microp- 

 terus, none is so distinctive as black bass, with the qualifjing terms 

 large-mouthed and small-mouthed, and these are the designations 

 which should be generally adopted and adhered to, oven though few, 

 if any, specimens are really black. 



Mr. Goode (33) recalls that "Charlevoix, a Jesuit missionary who 

 exj)lored Canada in 1721, mentions a fish called achigau, which is 

 thought to have been the large-mouth." M. Montpetit, in his "Les 

 poissons d'eau douce du Canada," has adopted achigan as the most 

 appropriate vernacular name and writes as follows regarding it: 



In the province of Quebec, in more than one American State, the name achigan 

 will persist and will perhaps finally prevail even on the continent of Europe. By- 

 priority, recognized as a principle by the naturalists of Europe and America, it 

 has incontestable titles, since for centuries and centuries, doubtless, before Lau- 

 donniere called this fish salmoides the aborigines of Canada designated it under 

 the name of achigan. It is a name of terror, the Algonquin name, picked up by 

 Charlevoix and religiously preserved among us. One savant, versed in the sav- 

 age languages, the Rev. Father Lacomb, O. M. I., has claimed that the word 

 means the fish which disputes, which struggles, which shakes and bungles the line. 

 Those who have seen it at work will admit that that is just its description. . 



* Alphabetical list of the common names of the basses and sun-fishes. 



Common name. 



Achigan 



Do.. 



Achigan grande bouche 



Achigan noir 



Achigan petite bouche. 

 Bachelor. 



Do.. 



Bachelor perch 



Banded snn-flsh 



Do .\... 



Bank-lick bass 



Bass hog-fish 



Bass sun-fish 



Bayou bass 



Big-ear sun-fish 



Big-fin bass 



Big-mouth 



Big mouth bass : . . . 



Big-mouthed black bass 

 Big-mouthed sun-fish . . 



Big-mouthed trout 



Big-nosed sun-fish 



Bitter-head 



Black-banded sun-fish.. 



Black bass 



Black bass of the Hu- 

 ron. 



Black crappie 



Black-eared pond-fish . . 



Do 



Black-ears 



Black-eyes 



Black-eye sun-fish 



Black fresh- water bass. 



Black huron 



Black perch 



Black sun-fish 



Do 



Blacrk-tailed sun-fish . 



Black warmouth 



Blo(jdy sun-fish 



Locality. 



Iowa 



Ohio Valley . 

 Ohio Eiver . . 



Ohio 



Lake Michigan; Wis. 

 General .' 



Southern States . 



Upper Miss. Valley. 



General 



do 



Kentucky; Ohio 'i ... 

 Kentucky 



Ohio 



General 



Ohio Valley . 

 do 



Ohio Valley; Miss. 

 Tenn. 



Miss, y 



Ohio 



Ohio Valley 



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Identification. 



Micropterus salmoides. 

 Micropterus. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 

 Micropterus. 

 Microptei-us dolomieu. 

 Pomoxis sparoides. 

 Pomoxis annularis. 



Do. 

 Enneacanthus obesus. 

 Mesogonistius chsetodon. 

 Pomoxis sparoides. 



Do. 

 Micropterus. 

 Micropterus dolomieu 



(young). 

 Acantharchus pomotis. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 

 Lepomis megalotis. 

 Pomoxis sparoides. 

 Chsenobryttus gulosiis. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 



Do. 

 Chsenobryttus gulosus. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 

 Apomotis ischyrus. 

 Pomoxis sparoides. 

 Mesogonistius chsetodon. 

 Micropterus. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 



Pomoxis siiaroides. 

 Le])i>iiiis ])allidus. 

 Lepinuis auritus. 

 Lepomis niotxalotis. 

 LeiJomis cvanellus. 



Do. 

 Microptoi'us dolomieu. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 

 Microptei-us dolomieu. 



Chtenobryttus gulosus. 

 Ambloplites rupestris. 

 Lepomis megalotis. 

 Chasnobryttus gulosus. 

 Lepomis megalotis. 



