22 Storefs Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 



2. Labrax rufus, Mitchill. 



Body deep compressed. Color, a silvery gray ; in very large specimens, all the upper 

 part of the body, as well as the head and fins, are of a rusty black. The spinous ray of the 

 second dorsal fin about two thirds the height of the first membranous ray. 



D. 9, 1-12. P. 15. V. 1-5. A. 3-9. C. 17. Length, 6 to 15 inches. Usual weight 

 about half a pound. This is known by the fishermen of Massachusetts as the White Perch. 



Massachusetts, Storer. Connecticut, Ayres. New York, Mitchill, Cirv., Dekay. 

 South Carolina, Dekay. 



Bodianus rufus, Red Perch, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. et Phil. Soc , 1. p. 420. 

 Le Petit Bar d'Amerique, Labrax mucronatus, Cuv. et Val., ii. p. 86, pi. 12. 



" " Small American Bass, or White Perch, Storer's Report, p 8. 



Labrax rufus, Ruddy Bass, Dekay's Report, p. 10, pi. 3, fig. 7. 

 Labrax mucronatus, Ayres, Bost. Journ Nat. Hist., iv. p. 257. 



" " While Perch, Linsley's Cat. of Fishes of Connecticut. 



3. Labrax pallidus, Mitchill. 



Body compressed, small, light colored. First ray of the posterior dorsal nearly as long as 



the second. Opercle with a single spine. 



D.9-13. P. 17. V. 1-5. A. 3-7. C. 17J. Length, 4 inches. 



Massachusetts, Storer. New York, Mitchill, Dekay. 



Merone pallida, Mitchill's Report on the Fishes of New York, p. 18. 



Bodianus pallidus, " Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., I. p 420. 



Labrax pallidus, Little White Bass, or White Perch, Dekay's Report, p. 11, pi. I, fig. 2. 



4. Labrax notatus, Smith. 



This species differs from the L. lineatus in being more robust, and in being marked with 

 rows of spots, five above and five below the lateral line, so regularly interrupted and trans- 

 posed as to appear like ancient church-music. The back is brilliant with iridescent green, 

 gold, and pink colors ; the sides, silvery. 



D. 9, 1-12. P. (?)• V. 1-6. A. 1-12. C. 17. Length, 1 to 2 feet. 



The river St. Lawrence, at Quebec, Richardson. 



Labrax notatus, Bar-fish, or Canadian Bass, Lt.Col. C. H. Smith ; Rich.. Fauna Boreal. Americ, in. p. ? 

 '• " Dekay's Report, p. 14. 



5. Labrax multilineatus, Cuv. 



Of a dark olive upon the head and back, silvery upon the sides, white beneath. Inter- 

 rupted dark brown longitudinal stripes, varying in their number, upon the sides. Cuvier, in 

 his description of this species, from a specimen taken in the Wabash, describes the number 

 of stripes as being from sixteen to nineteen. Kirtland, in his account of the same, speaks 

 of six or seven. This species differs from the lineatus by its deeper body, shorter head, 



