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ous connected with the Gulf of Mexico, around to Texas, in lat- 

 itude 27." (GooDE, Fishery Industries U. S. 9 sec. i, 401, 

 1884.) 



MICRO PTERUS SALOMIDES Forbes, 1884. " The large-mouthed 

 Black Bass favors especially lakes, ponds and sluggish waters, 

 but occurs also in rivers and large creeks throughout Illinois. It 

 is the common southern form of Black Bass, although perhaps, 

 on the whole, no more abundant there than in the northern part 

 of the state." (FORBES, Cat. of Native Fishes Ills. <^Eept. Ills. 

 State Fish Com., 67, 1884.) 



MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES Gill, 1885. "The large-mouthed 

 Black Bass has the mouth deeply cleft," so that the maxillary of 

 the adult extends back of the orbit ; the scales are quite large, 

 there being sixty-five to seventy in the lateral line, and the num- 

 ber of rows between the lateral line and the back is only seven 

 or eight. The distribution of this form is very wide, and it 

 extends from the British provinces southward in one direction to 

 Florida, and in another direction into Mexico." (GiLL, Stan- 

 dard Nat. Hist., vol. iii, 231, 1885.) 



MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES Jordan and Gilbert, 1886. "These 

 specimens [Texas] agree with northern ones in form and squama- 

 tion. The mouth is, however, a little smaller, and the coloration 

 is somewhat different. The lateral band is broken up into nu- 

 merous irregular dark cross-streaks, which 'reach the dorsal fin, 

 and below this there are very distinct longitudinal streaks follow- 

 ing the rows of scales. The caudal fin has narrow cross-streaks 

 formed of dark spots." (JORDAN and GILBERT, Pro. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., ix, 21, 1886.) 



MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES Jordan 'and Evermann, 1886. 

 " The young may be known at once by the color, the ground 

 being here much paler than in the other [I/, dolomieu], and there 

 being a broad blackish band along the sides." (JORDAN and 

 EVERMANN, Food Fishes Ind. <^Ind. Agric. Rept., 13, 1886.) 



MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES Jordan, 1888. "Body rather 



