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name of " trout-perch." Owing to the vernacular 

 name, he gave it the specific name of salmoides, 

 " salmon-like " or " trout-like." Thirty years be- 

 fore, pressed skins of the large-mouth bass had 

 been sent to Linnaeus by Dr. Garden from Charles- 

 ton, South Carolina, under the name of "fresh- 

 water trout," but Linnaeus failed to describe or 

 name it. The black-bass is called " trout " to this 

 day in the Southern states. 



The large-mouth black-bass is very similar in 

 appearance to the small-mouth bass. It is not 

 quite so trimly built, being somewhat more 

 " stocky " and robust. Its mouth is larger, the 

 angle reaching behind the eye. It has larger 

 scales, and those on the cheeks are not much 

 smaller than those on the body, while in the 

 small-mouth bass the cheek scales are very small 

 compared with its body scales. The large-mouth 

 is more muscular, and has a broader and more 

 powerful tail. 



Its distribution is perhaps wider than that of 

 any other game-fish, its range extending from 

 Canada to Florida and Mexico, and, through 

 transplantation, from the Atlantic to the Pa- 

 cific. It has also been introduced into Germany, 

 France, Russia, and the Netherlands, where it is 



