GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 253 



THE GEOWLEE. 



Grystes Salmonides — Auctorum. The White Salmon — Smith's History of 

 Virginia. The Trout — Carolina Provincialism. 



This fish, in general form, closely corresponds with that last 

 described. It has the same gibbous back, with the lateral line 

 following the dorsal curve, and the same protruded lower jaw. 

 Its teeth are minutely in broad bands or patches. The oper- 

 culum has two moderate points. 



Its colour is deep greenish brown, with a bluish black spot on 

 the point of the operculum. When young it has twenty-five or 

 thirty longitudinal brownish bands, which become effaced by 

 age. 



The first dorsal fin has ten spines ; the second, thirteen or 

 fourteen soft rays ; the pectorals, sixteen soft rays ; the ventrals, 

 one spine and five soft rays ; the anal three spines and eleven 

 or twelve soft rays ; the caudal fin, which is slightly lunate, has 

 seventeen soft rays. 



There may, perhaps, be two distinct varieties of this fish. It 

 has been taken in the waters of western New York, in the 

 Wabash in Indiana, and abundantly in Carolina, where it 

 attains to the length of two feet, and is considered an excellent 

 fish, passing, as well as another fish of the same family, the 

 Carolina Weak Fish {Otolithus Carolinensis), under the misnomer 

 of Trout. I am inclined to believe that this fish is also known 

 as the Welchman in the inland waters of North Carolina. 



Before passing on to the next species I will observe that I 



