SCIENTIFIC HISTORY OF THE BLACK 'BASS. 



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Linne, in the tenth and twelfth editions of his Systema Na- 

 turce. 



"Linne had two examples of the large-mouth Black Bass from 

 Garden (Nos. 8 and 40, Garden), but he does not seem to have 

 described the species. 



" For No. 8, see Correspondence with Linne, 311 ; for 40, see 

 page 306. 



" No. 40 is labeled thus by Garden :. 



No. 40. 

 LABRUS. 



Nostralib. 

 FRESH-WATER TROUT. 



Since the publication of the " Book of the Black Bass/' 

 I have had the pleasure of personally examining the orig- 

 inal type specimens of the Black Bass species in the Mu- 

 seum D'Histoire Naturelle, in the Jardin des Plantes, at 

 Paris. 



Lacepede's type specimen of M. dolomieu, the small- 

 mouthed Bass (referred to on pp. 12 and 41),* is a fine 

 example, about a foot in length, and is in a remarkably 

 good state of preservation. It is undoubtedly a small- 

 mouthed Bass. 



The two specimens sent to the museum by Milbert (pp. 

 14 and 43), and from one of which the figure in Cuvier and 

 Valenciennes' " Histoire Naturelie des Poissons " was 

 taken, are both large-mouthed Bass, one being fully eight, 

 and the other about six inches in length. 



The four specimens from the Wabash river, sent to the 



*Book of the Black Bass, 1881. 



