CHARMING SPORT ON FRESH- WATER STREAMS. 469 



mouth. It deposits its eggs in July and August. The flesh 

 of the white perch is white, no small forked bones, having 

 a delicate flavor, but not equal, perhaps, to the best of the 

 genus Percidce. 



The united dorsals comprise six spinal and fourteen soft 

 rays ; caudal, seventeen soft rays ; anal, six spinal and seven- 

 teen soft rays; ventral fin, one spinal and five soft rays; pec- 

 toral, thirteen soft rays ; eyes large and bluish, with black 

 pupil ; length of head, compared with body, as three and a 

 half to eleven; mouth large, and armed round the edge with 

 two or three serrated rows of small teeth, with teeth also on 

 the palate ; seven gill rays. Though white and sparkling, it 

 is ornamented with bluish rays on the body and fins, with 

 medallions on the caudal. The color is white below the lat- 

 eral line, and pale blue above. The white perch is not mi- 

 gratory, and it attains to the weight of five pounds or more. 



SOUTHERN CHUB, OR TROUT. 



Six branchiostegous rays; first dorsal, nine spinal rays; 

 second dorsal, one spinal and twelve soft rays ; caudal, eight- 

 een soft rays, slightly lunated ; anal, three spinal and ten soft ; 

 ventral, one spinal and five soft ; pectoral, thirteen soft rays. 



This fish is evidently a perch-chub. It has teeth on the 

 edge of both mandibles, like a perch, and on the palate like 

 the chub and other leather-mouthed fishes. This fish is not 

 known in Northern waters. The fish from which this draw- 

 ing was ma4e was taken in a stream near Meridian, Missis- 

 sippi. For the table it is considered the best fresh-water 

 fish of the Southern States. It weighs up to ten pounds; 



