FISHES OF NEW YORK 491 



68. The color is greenish, silvery below. The young have a 

 broad dark lateral band. D. X, 13; A. Ill, 10-11. 



This species may best be distinguished from the small 

 mouthed black bass by the size of its mouth and the number 

 of rows of scales above the lateral line. The j'oung of the 

 small mouthed species, also, never have a dark lateral band. 



Common names for this species are, Oswego bass, river bass, 

 green bass, moss bass, bayou bass, trout, jumper, chub and 

 Welshman. Throughout the north it is generally known as bass, 

 in Virginia and North Carolina as chub and in Florida and west 

 to Texas as trout. 



The large mouthed bass has a wide distribution, being 

 indigenous to the eastern United States, from Manitoba to 

 Florida and Texas, except New England and the Middle Atlantic 

 states east of the Alleghanies, where it has been extensively 

 introduced. It inhabits the fresh-water ponds, lakes and slug- 

 gish streams. It is found also at the mouths of rivers empty- 

 ing into the Gulf of Mexico, where the water is brackish. 



Dr Meek found the large mouthed species scarce near Ithaca 

 and more common near Montezuma and Cayuga. James Annin 

 jr collected the young at Caledonia. The U. S. Fish Commission 

 had it from the following places in the Lake Ontario region: 



Lake view hotel, 7 m. n. e. of Oswego 



Marsh creek, Point Breeze 



Mouth Salmon river, Selkirk 



Mouth Little Salmon creek 



Stony Island 



Four Mile creek, Nine Mile point, near Webster 



Creek at Pultneyville 



Chaumont river 



Great Sodus bay 



Three Mile creek, Oswego 



Long pond, Charlotte 



Dr Mearns first observed the species in the Hudson in the 

 autumn of 1882, where the fish were caught in fyke nets during 

 October and November. Eugene Smith records it from all lakes 

 and rivers adjacent to New York city. 



