Percoidea, or Perch-like Fishes 
514 
The latter is a large and gamy 
fish, valued as food and interesting as being the only fresh- 
“perch”’ of the Sacramento. 
—Rock Bass, Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque.) Ecorse, Mich. 
Fic. 402. 
water fish of the nature of perch or bass native to the west of 
The numbers of this species, according 
Mountains. 
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the Roc 
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ae 
Delaware River. 
Mesogonistius chetodon (Baird). 
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Sunfish 
Fic. 408.—Banded 
(Ameturus nebulosus) 
to Mr. Will S. Green of Colusa, California, have been greatly 
reduced by the introduction of the catfish 
