THE FAMILY rKUClD.K. -.'I 



Genus Ctntrarchnn. 



The Hotk Bass {Centrarchus jUlneus). 



iitrnus Otolit/m.s. 



Tin- Weak Fish {Otoiit/tiui Ref/alh). 



The Southern Trout [OtoHthus Carolinensis). 



And with these, unless the rcaiU'r ehoosc to atUl the l''el of 

 tlie chiss Apodal Malacopti;kv(;ii, family Anuuill)d.k, the 

 list of the fresh-water Sportinj^ Fishes of the I iiitcd States and 

 British Provinces may he said to close. 



Of these fish, the True SiUmou [Sahno iiiiluj-), the Sea Trout 

 {Salmo Trutta Marina), the lirook Trout {Sahno Foniinalb), the 

 Arctic Charr [Salmo Iloodii), and perhaps the Sebago Lake Trout, 

 are migratory, as is also the Arctic (i ray ling [Thymalluit Siynifer) ; 

 all the other Lake Trout, and such of the Hiook Trout as are 

 found in snudl streams above impracticable fidls, or in spring 

 ponds, or lakes without outlets, arc stationary, or non-migratory ; 

 and the consequences of their habit may be very readily disco- 

 vered in the inferiority of their flesh, both in colour and firmness 

 of muscle, and in their comparatively lazy gait, and want of 

 game (jualities, vigour and endurance. 



Of other soft-tinned fishes, the Smelt {Osmcru.s I'indescens), 

 the Shad [Alosa Prtestabilis), and the Herring {Clupea Harengas), 

 arc migrator)- from salt to fresh water, and so, perhaps, is the 

 Weak Fish, in the Southern waters, then' inisnameil Trout* 

 ( OtoUthu9 CaroUnensit) . 



* Thin ftuli I h»rc norcr •ovn ; but I RTvatly doubt tluit tJic fwli cAllttl «• Trout," 

 in the South, b identical with the Nortlicm Weak Fiaii. From I'rofvMur AgiuBiz, 

 I undcnUnd it to bo a pcculiju* rarirty of the Wcalc Fiidi {(H>ilahut), b<>iii); ii|>otte<l, 

 rather tluu) «tripe<l, and thu* differing aomcwiuit from it, and friNiuvnting frvsli 

 strcaoM, which the oUien do not. 



