26 THE GAME FISH OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Of those salt-water fish of the Atlantic coasts which afford 

 the most real sport to the angler, and which are alone taken 

 with the rod and reel, all the families belong to the class of the 

 Acanthopterygii, or spiny-finned fishes, none of the soft-finned 

 fishes of the abdominal division being taken in the shoal waters 

 of the bays and estuaries; while the deep-sea fish are all of the 

 Sub-brachial Malacopterygii, unless we may consider as such the 

 Sea Bass and Porgee, which are, however, as often or oftener 

 caught in shallow water. 



Of salt-water fish, taken in shoal water, river mouths, and the 

 like, Acanthopterygii, spiny-finned, we have the family 



PerciDjE, whereof the Perch is the type. 



Genus Lahrax. 



The Striped Bass [Lahrax Lineatus). 



Mentioned above as a fresh-water fish, being frequently 

 caught in rivers far above tide-water, as well as in the estuaries, 

 and even in the surfs on the ocean borders. 



Genus Centropristes. 



The Sea Bass [Centropristes Nigricans). 

 Scienidse. 



Genus Leiostomus. 



The Sea Chub. — Lafayette-fish [Leiostomus Obligum). 



Genus Otolit/ms. 



The Weak Fish [Otolithus Regalis). 



The Southern Trout [Otolithus Carolinensis) . 



Genus Umbrina. 



The King Fish [Umbrina Nebulosa). 



