322 PERC^ED^E. 



Placed in a bucket or tub of water, covered over with a 

 cloth, large fish bear removal very well, and in instances 

 where they have been transferred to American waters 

 in which they were not previously known, they have 

 multiplied with extraordinary rapidity. 



Besides the Black- Basse, there are the Rock-Basse, 

 the White-Basse, and the Striped-Basse. The former 

 (Centrarchus ^Eneus), which is found in all the Great 

 Lakes, is smaller than the Black-Basse, attaining not 

 more than half its weight, and is of a greenish bronze 

 colour above, and of a bright coppery hue below, with 

 a few dark spots on the belly. By the latter markings it 

 is readily distinguished from the immature Black-Basse, 

 the appearance of which, as already remarked, varies 

 so much at different periods. 



The Rock-Basse bites very freely at the minnow 

 or cray-fish, or at a piece of " lake-herring," which is 

 the bait commonly employed by the Ontario fishermen 

 on their set-lines, and I have taken them with the rod 

 in this manner almost as fast as I could bait my hook. 

 They are caught plentifully by the inhabitants of all 

 the towns and villages around the shores of Ontario, but 

 are very inferior in flavour to the Black-Basse. 



The White-Basse (Labrax albidus), which is gre- 

 garious, is common in some of the Upper Lakes, and 

 especially so in Lake Erie. It is not only a bold biter, 



