Omida Luke fishes 483 



tralizations are inatle (p. 37y) : There is a relation Ijctween the size of the fish 

 and its food; up to alxjut i '4 inches the food is ahnost entirely enlomostracans and 

 chirononiids or midge larvae; from i>4-- inches, it is amphipods; and from 2-3,'4 

 inches, anii)hip<j<ls, entoniostracans and midge larsae give way to insect larvae 

 and fish. 



Pearse ('ji j). 265), from studies of food of 16 specimens, mostly young, 

 from Green l^ke, Wisconsin, obtained results similar to those of Turner and 

 Kraatz. The most important food he found was insects (including immature 

 stages), cladocerans, and amphipods. DeRyke ('22, p. 38) found young of this 

 species (i-i^l- in. long) from Winona I-ake, Indiana, eating small crustaceans, 

 chiefly amphip<Kls and cladocerans, and immature stages nf May-flies and chirono- 

 niids. He says that with the increase in size, the bass utilizes a large vaiiety of 

 fo<Kl, until it has reached alwut two inches in length, when it depends principally 

 U|K>n small fishes for its foo<l. Greeley ('2y, p. 64), in two 12-inch specimens 

 taken in the Genesee Sy.stem in New York, fuund crawfish in one and a Horned 

 Dace in the other. 



Distribution Records. We made the following collections in shallow water 

 (up to three feet), mainly with minnow nets and seines: Xo. 5, South Bay; No. 

 76, Constantia; Xo. 94, bay near Hrewerton ; Xo. 118, Big Bay Creek; Xo. 120, 

 Big Bay Shoals; Xo. 124, Kairchild's Bay; Xo. 3a). Lower South Bay; No. 

 314. C'oville's landing, Brewerton : Xo. 482, lui.st F"airchild's Bay; Xo. 511, 

 ( )neida Creek tributary ; Xo. 546, Chittenango Creek ; Xo. 552, West 

 \ienna; Xo. 3^14, Big Bay; Xo. 577, Three Mile Bay; Xo. 585, Lower 

 South Bay; Xos. 591 and 4270, Sylvan Beach; Xo. 51X;. Coville's landing. Brewer- 

 ton ; Xo. 603, Fairchild's Bay ; Xo. 604, near Fairchild's Bay ; Xo. (103. Rist Sliaw's 

 B.ny; Xos. 610. (iii. Lower .South Bay: Xos. U\j, G22. hjG, Coville's I-anding; 

 Xo. 4200. Maple Bay. 



We collected the following in shallow water with trammel nets: Xo. 324. Short 

 Point Bay; Xo. 326. (Tiittenango Creek; Xo. 342, Jtihnson's Bay. The following 

 were taken in deep or nnxlerately deep water: Xo. 144, Grass Island Bar; No. 561, 

 Pixldygut Bay; Xos. 3c;<>. 48^1, Market s|>ecinH-ns ; Xo. i»8, found de.id. 



Pratt anti Baker colUrted the following in nuKlerately deep water, mainly with 

 trap nets: Xo. 1200, Coville's I.an<ling; Xu. 1247. Muskrat Bay; Xo. 1031. Lower 

 South B.ny. 



litiemies and Disease. Pickerel and Wall-eyed Pike are known to i>c enemies 

 of the black bass, and very prolwbly they with other jiiscivorous fislu-s eat the 

 yoinig of these sjiecies in Oiu-ida I-ike. We found one I.;trge-nmuth ( Xo. 98) 

 with a lam|)rey scar, and this may have U-en the cause of its death. 



I.arge-mouth Black Bass are frtnpiently infested with )iarasitic worms. Pratt 

 ('2,\. p. 63) in one Oneiila l.ake s|)efimen found \eoeiliinorliynelius in the intes- 

 tine, and Caeeinenia par:-ulus (.Marshall and GillnTt ) in tl>e pyloric cocca and 

 chuMleinnn. I'orty-two s|)ecimeiis of the !-irge inoiitli from lakes near M.vlison. 

 Wisci>nsin (.Marshall and GilU-rt. 03, p. 320 1. all hail wonn parasites — Trema- 

 tcMles. cestiMli's, neniatiMles, and acanthiHephalans. The treniat<Mles are given as 

 . Icyijia terelicolle, A. loossii. Caerineola f^n'iiltis. and l.nuerullirus ini,ri>ften. 

 Among tlie cesto<les was Proteoeefhalus. Recently Ksscx and Hunter ('2*. I 



