Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1133 



elongate, little compressed, the depth less than the length ; back little 

 arched ; head subconical ; mouth large, oblique, the maxillary reaching to 

 nearly below middle of orbit, 2 in head, its width at tip nearly | diameter 

 of eye ; teeth on base of tongue in two parallel patches ; interorbital space 

 wide; lower jaw projecting; eye | to f the length of the rather sharp 

 snout, 5 to 7 in head; preorbital entire; preopercle rather weakly serrate, 

 the teeth strongest at the angle ; margin of subopercle entire ; suprascap- 

 ula entire; gill rakers long and slender, about 4 + 15; dorsal fins 

 entirely separated ; spines slenderer than in allied species ; longest dorsal 

 spine 2i in head; anal spines graduated; second anal spine 5 to 6 in head; 

 Caudal forked, the middle rays length of outer. Color olivaceous, sil- 

 very, often brassy-tinged ; sides paler, marked with 7 or 8 continuous or 

 interrupted blackish stripes, one of them along the lateral line ; fins pale. 

 Atlantic coast of the United States, from New Brunswick to the Escambia 

 River, Florida, ascending all rivers in spring for the purpose of spawn- 

 ing ; rather rare in the Gulf of Mexico ; most common from Cape Cod to 

 Cape May; occasionally in Lake Ontario. Introduced by the U. S. Fish 

 Commission into Sacramento River and elsewhere on the west coast, 

 where it has become an abundant and valuable food-fish. This species is 

 one of the most important of the game and food-fishes of America. It is 

 very abundant throughout its range and reaches a large size, often 

 weighing 30 to 90 pounds. The largest one ever reported, according to 

 Goode, was taken at Orleans, Massachusetts, and weighed 112 pounds. 

 Its flesh is firm, white, flaky, and of excellent flavor, (lineatus, striped.) 



Perco Rock-fish vel Striped Bass, SCHOPF, Schrift. der Gesells. Nat. Freunde, vm, 160 1788 New 



York. 



Perca saxatilis, WALBAUM, Artedi Genera Piscium, 330, 1788, New York; after SCHOPF. 

 S -i.-inn lineata, BLOCK, Ichthyologia, ix, 53, pi. 305, 1792, Mediterranean Sea; figure incorrect, 



but probably from an American specimen. 



Perca septentrionalis, BLOCH & SCHNEIDER, Systema Ichthyol., 90, pi. 70, 1801, New York. 

 Roccus striatns, MITCHILL, Rep. Fishes N. Y., 25, 1814, specimens from New York.; BEAN, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 243, specimens from Montgomery, Alabama. 



Perca mitchilli, MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., i, 413, pi. 3, fig. 4, 1815, New York. 

 Perca mitchilli alternata, MITCHILL, I. c., 415, 1815, New York. 



Perca mitchilli interrupts, MITCHILL, Traus. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., 415, 1815, New York. 

 Lepibema lineatum, STEINDACHNER, Yerh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien., xn, 1862, 504. 

 Lepibema mitchilli, RAFINESQUE, Ichthyologia Ohiensis, 23, 1820. 

 Labrax lineatns, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. des Poissons, n, 79, 1828. 

 Roccus linealus, GILL, Ichth. Rep. Capt. Simpson's Expl. Great Basin Utah, 391, 1876; GOODE, 



Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim., 425, 1884. 

 Roccus saxatilis, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 599. 



< <ii*, JORDAN & EIQENMANN, 7. c., 423, 1890. 

 Morone lineala, BOULENGER, Cat., I, 129. 



492. MORONE, Mitchill. 

 (WHITE PERCH.) 



Morone, MITCHILL, Fishes of New York, 18, 1814, (rufa and flavescens : the genus properly a syno- 

 nym of Perca). 

 Morone, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat.Sci. Phila., 1860, 111, (restriction toamericana^rufa). 



Body rather short and deep, compressed; maxillary broad, naked, with- 

 out supplemental bone ; teeth subequal, lower jaw scarcely projecting ; no 



