222 I^OCK BASS. 
CHAPTEE XXIII. 
KOCK BASS. 
CentrarcJms u^neus. — ^This is an entirely distinct spe- 
cies from the Black Bass, tliongh, being somewhat similar 
in color and shape, is often confounded with them. The 
same may be said of the Oswego Bass, which is now 
ascertained to be equally distinct, though commonly 
known as bass, and su23posed to be identical. The iish 
under consideration must in no wise be confounded with 
the Kock-fish of Pennsylvania, which is the Striped Bass, 
Labrax lineatus^ and which the benighted Pennsylva- 
nians would oblige us by calling by its right name. 
The Bock Bass has two flat points at the angle of the 
gill-cover, and is distinguished from the variety last de- 
scribed by six or seven spines and eleven soft rays in the 
anal fin. The dorsal has eleven spines, and ten or twelve 
soft rays ; the pectoral fourteen soft rays, the ventral one 
spine and five soft rays, and the gill-rays are six. The 
fin-rays are given by Dr. De Kay as follows : 
D. 11.12 ; P. 14 ; Y. 1.5 ; A. 6.11 ; C. 17f. 
This fish is found in much the same waters as the 
black bass, and, like the latter, made its way on the com- 
pletion of the Champlain canal through it into the Hudson 
Biver. It takes any of the ordinary baits, preferring, 
however, the cray-fish, Astacus Bartoni^ and can be 
