460 Roosevelt Wild Life Annals 



Douglas Creek; No. 416, Lakeport Bay; No. 422, Mathews Point; No. 427, Dakin 

 Bay; No. 434, Norcross Point; No. 441, Taft Bay; No. 447, East Potter Bay 

 Creek; No. 448, near Taft and Bernhard Bay; No. 453, Bernhard Bay; No. 456, 

 West Potter Bay; No. 460, Black Creek; Nos. 463, 464, East Potter Bay; No. 483, 

 Fairchild Bay; No. 498, Messenger Bay; Nos. 501, 502, Lewis Point; No. 507, 

 Upper South Bay; No. 517, Sylvan Beach; No. 522, Frenchman Island; No. 523, 

 Short Point Bay ; No. 539, Dunham Island ; No. 547, Chittenango Creek ; No. 550, 

 Godfrey Point; No. 552, West Vienna; No. 553, West Vienna Creek; No. 593, 

 North Bay Creek; No. 599, Brewerton; No. 607, Shaw Bay; No. 610, Lower 

 South Bay. 



Enemies and Disease. A Manitou Darter (No. 414) was taken from the 

 stomach of a large Rock Bass that had been caught by hook in Douglas Creek, on 

 June 22, 1916. A leech was found on the tail of one fish (No. 507). One 

 (No. 550) was taken which had soft yellowish swellings at the base of some of its 

 fins. Other diseased specimens were Nos. 413 and 599. McCormick ('92, p. 29) 

 found Log Perch to form the bulk of the fish remains that he saw among the tern 

 nests on Rattle Snake Island in Lake Erie, July 13, 1891. 



Ellis and Roe ('17, p. 69) give an account of the eggs of Pcrcina caprodes 

 being devoured by suckers (Catostonms conimersonii) in Douglas Lake, Michigan. 

 Fifteen of these suckers were opened, and an average of 500 Log Perch eggs were 

 found in them. Evermann and Clark ('20, p. 430) says the Log Perch is infested 

 to some degree with trematodes, which form small black spots in the skin, but that 

 it is not so susceptible to these parasites as are some of the other darters. The 

 Red-breasted Merganser (I.e., p. 496) and the Common Pike, Esox Indus 

 (Greeley, '27, p. 62) have been known to feed on this darter. 



Economic Relations. In some localities this darter is large enough to be 

 used as a pan fish, but we obtained no evidence that those in Oneida Lake are ever 

 so used, or that it is ever used as bait there. Mr. Dillenbeck tells us that they are 

 a nuisance because they take worms from hooks when these happen to rest on the 

 bottom ; this he says may occur in water as deep as 18 feet. 



Angling. Manitou Darters and Log Perch are frequently caught by hook in 

 some regions, but are probably of little interest to any except juvenile fishermen. 

 Forbes and Richardson ('09, p. 283) say that it is probably the only one of our 

 darters definitely known as an anglers' fish. 



References. Abbott, '84, '01; Baker, '16; Bensley, '15; Clemens. '24: 

 DeRyke, '22; Eigenmann, '95; Ellis and Roe, '17; Evermann, '01 ; Evermann and 

 Clark, '20; Forbes, '80; Forbes and Richardson, '09; Greeley, '27; Jordan and 

 Copeland, '96; Jordan and Evermann, '96; McCormick, '92; Reighard, '13a, '15. 



Boleosoma nigrum olmstedi (Storer). Tessellated Darter. These 

 Darters were very abundant and very generally distributed in the shallow waters 

 of Oneida Lake. They were found under a variety of conditions, but evidently 

 preferred gravelly or rocky shoals, especially those with some algae on the bottom. 

 They are easily distingui.shed from the other darters in the lake by their slender 

 form, light color (except for the highly pigmented breeding males), the W-shaped 

 markings on the sides of the body, and the protractile premaxillaries. 



