THE PERCH FAMILY. 



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FRESH- WATEE BASS OF THE SOUTH AND WEST. 

 Grystes salmoides : Cuvier. 



This fish is known under various names, through the wide 

 extent of its habitat. In the neighborhood of Richmond, it 

 is called the James River Chub, sometimes Bass. In its more 

 southerly range, it goes by the names of Trout, Black Trout, 

 and Brown Trout, and is seldom called Bass, except in the 

 Northwestern States. Although it is called "Trout," at the 

 South, there is no family or generic affinity between it and 

 our northern Trout. 



The following is an abridgment of Holbrookes description, 

 connected with a few observations of the writer. Head and 

 body, dusky olive above, sometimes with a yellowish tint, 

 lighter on the sides. Belly white ; opercles light green or 

 greenish yellow; first dorsal fin, nine spines and eighteen 

 soft rays ; pectorals, fifteen ; ventrals, one spine and five rays ; 

 anal, three spines and twelve rays ; caudal, nineteen rays. 

 Body elongated oval, straight on the belly. Eye large. 

 Mouth very large, lower jaw longer. The vomer has brash- 



