Storer's Synopsis of the Fishes of JYorth America, 17 



1. Perca flavescens, Mitchill. 



Above, greenish yellow ; sides and abdomen, golden yellow. Six to ten vertical black 

 bands descend from the back to the inferior portion of the sides, the alternate ones being 

 shorter. Pectorals, ventrals, and anal, orange. 



The fin rays are,— D. 13. 1-13. P. 15. V. 1-5. A. 2-8. C. 17. Length, 4 to V2 

 inches. 



Lake Huron, Richardson. Massachusetts, Stoker Connecticut, Ayres, Linsley. Z t^h*. C/^^**- »^*** 

 New York, Mitchill, Dekay. Ohio, Kirtland. Pennsylvania, Haldeman. ' ™~ /cvctC, t Lct*~(*. ?7 ■ ' , 



Bodianus flavescens, Yellow Perch, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., I. p. 421. 

 La Perche jaunatre d'Amerique, Perca flavescens, Cuv. et Val., ii. p. 46. 

 Perca flavescens, American Perch, Rich., Fauna Boreal. Americ., m. p. 1, pi. 74. 

 Perca flavescens, Common Perch of Massachusetts, Storer's Keport, p. 5. 

 Bodianus flavescens, Yellow Perch, Kirtland's Rep. on Zob'l. of Ohio, pp. 168, 190. 

 Perca flavescens, American Yellow Perch, Dekay's Report, p. 3, pi. 1, fig. i. 

 " " " " " Linsley's Cat. of Fishes of Conn. 



La Perche a opercules grenues, Perca serrato-granulata, Cuv. et Val., ii. p. 47. 



" " " Griffith's Cuv., x. pi. 39, fig. I. 



" Dekay's Report, p. 5, pi. 22, fig. 64. 



La Perche a tele grenue, Perca granulata, Cuv. et Val., vii. p. 48, pi. 9. 



" " Jardine, Nat. Lib., i. p. 92, pi. 1. 



" " Dekay's Report, p. 5, pi. 43, fig. 220. 



" Linsley's Cat. of Fishes of Conn. 

 La Perche a museau pointu, Perca acuta, Cuv. et Val., ii. p. 49, pi. 10. 



" " Sharp-nosed Perch, Rich., Fauna Boreal. Americ, in. p. 4. 

 " " Sharp-nosed Yellow Perch, Dekay's Rep., p. 6, pi. 6S, fig. 222. 

 La Perche grele, Perca gracilis, Cuv. et Val., ii, p. 50. 



" " Rich., Fauna Boreal. Americ, in. p. 4. 



" " Slender Yellow Perch, Dekay's Report, p. 6. 



2. Perca Plumieri, Bloch. >*■■ < ^ « <^JCZCa ; . ' >' 



■■ 7° 



Whitish, with four longitudinal yellow ribands, and eight vertical blackish bands. The ' 



first dorsal and pectorals, gray ; the other fins, yellow. 



D. 9. 2-8. P. 13. V.l-6. A. 7. C. 22. Bloch. Length, (?). 

 Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



Sciiena Plumieri, Bloch, pi. 306. 



" " Plumier's Sciiena, Shaw's Gen. Znbl,, iv p. r..37. 



La Perche de Plumier, Perca Plumieri, Cuv. et Val., ii. p. 51. 



GENUS II. ETHEOSTOMA,* Rap. 



Body nearly cylindrical, and scaly. Mouth variable, with small teeth. Gill- 

 cover double or triple, unserrate, with a spine on the opercle, and without 



* Haldeman formed a genus, which he calls Percina ; and Dekay, in his " Report on the 

 Zoology of New York," characterizes two genera under the names of Pileoma and Boleo- 

 soma, to receive the fishes which Rafinesque introduced into his genus Elheostoma. As Dr. 



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