THE MINOR BASSES (fiLAC K-B ASS FAMILY) 



strawberry-perch, razorback, flyfish, chinquapin- 

 perch, lake shad, silver bass, big-fin bass, goggle- 

 eye, or goggle-eyed perch. 



The Crappie. 



The Southern form, known very generally as the 

 crappie, is also locally called bachelor, New-light, 

 Campbellite, sac-a-lait, crapet, tinmouth, bride- 

 perch, chub, speckled perch, John Demon, and 

 shad. It must also not be forgotten that nearly 

 all these names a*re applied indiscriminately to both 

 species of this fish. Could confusion be worse con- 

 founded? 



To distinguish these two species at sight is not an 

 easy matter, particularly when both are taken from 

 the same water, possess the same physical condi- 

 tions, and live upon the same food, which so affects 

 the coloration as to lead to a similarity in hues and 

 tints. In the crappie (Southern) the profile is more 

 or less strongly S -shaped, the mouth is very wide, 

 and the rows of scales on the cheek (a space back 

 of the eye) are four or five in number. 



" Color silvery olive, mottled with dark green, with dark 

 marks chiefly on the upper part of the body with a ten- 

 dency to form narrow vertical bars." 



The dorsal fin has six spines and fifteen rays. The 

 calico-bass (Northern) is a much broader fish than 



