384 GAME FISH OF NORTH AMERICA. 



sheen of purple. It is a fair table fish, but spoils very soon after it 

 is killed. Found in Louisiana and Mississippi. 



Fall Fish ; shiner ; shining dace. Semotilus rhotheus. Leuciscus nitidus. 

 De Kay. 



Colors very brilliant, having as ground a very pure silvery 

 white ; back is often steel blue, and sides of head bright rose 

 color. In spring and summer the adult males have rosy shades, 

 and the dorsal and pectoral fins are crimson. Length twelve 

 inches. Specimens have been caught weighing five pounds. 

 Much esteemed as food, and affords good sport for the angler. 



Another variety is the Little Fall Fish, or Corporaalen, S. cor- 

 poralis, similar in shape to the above, but distinguished by its nar- 

 rower scales, and by a dark spot at the base of the dorsal fin, and 

 darker colors above, cream colored below. Length twelve inches. 



Stony 'M.-EKXi.—Ceraticthysbiguttatus. Kirt. 



A brownish cream colored dun, shaded with slate above the 

 lateral line, where the scales are tipped and margined with the 

 same. Length six inches. Much esteemed as food. 



The Report of the Maryland Fish Commissioners for 1876, to 

 which we are indebted for descriptions of several varieties of the 

 families Cyprinidse and Percidas, describes no less than twenty-five 

 varieties of Cyprinidae found in the State of Mar>'land alone, 

 but they are generally small, and not in request by anglers. 



SALMONID^. 



Mountain Trout. — Common Speckled Trout or Brook Trout. — Salxa.0 fontinalis. 

 Mitch. 



The only localities in the Southern States in which this fish is 

 caught are the headwaters of streams that have their sources in 

 the Apalachian Mountain ranges, these constituting the tributaries 

 or feeders of rivers in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South 

 Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. Nearly all of them contaiu 

 trout. [See Northern Inland Fishes.] 



ACIPENSERID^. 



Sh.\rp-nosed Sturgeon; Jack Sturgeon. — AciJ>CHscr oxyrhynchus. Mitch. 

 Elongated, pentagonal body ; entire surface granulated, ex- 

 cepting that occupied by five longitudinal rows of flattened plates, 



