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ponds and breeds there. It rises to the fly quite well 

 and grows to the length of ten inches. 



It spawns shortly after the ice leaves the ponds and 

 attaches its eggs to floating sticks, weeds, etc. They 

 spawn in early morning at the surface and make quite 

 a splashing. I have obtained the weeds bearing the 

 eggs and hatched them in McDonald hatching jars. 

 The eggs are very small. 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



THE PIKE-PERCHES. 



Here are two more fishes plagued with a multiplicity 

 of common names. I follow the late Dr. George 

 Brown Goode in choosing the above title, and he was 

 one of our best authorities. The old name of Luci- 

 operca given by Linnaeus means Lucius a pike, and 

 perca a perch. It was a perch with the habits of the 

 pike. There are two species; the largest and most im- 

 portant one resembles the only European species. This 

 is commonly known as "wall-eyed pike," from its large 

 glassy eye. 



THE WALL-EYED PIKE (Stizostedion vitreum) . 



This fish ranges from the Great Lakes through the 

 sm<Ml lakes of western New York, north through Brit- 

 ish America and south in the Susquehanna, Ohio and 



