74 Bass, Pike, and Perch 



bass, silver-bass, big-fin bass, Lake Erie bass, 

 razor back, bitter-head, lamplighter, etc., while 

 in the Southern states it is known as speckled 

 perch, goggle-eyed perch, chincapin perch, bridge 

 perch, etc. 



As the calico-bass and the next fish to be 

 described, the crappie, belong to the same genus 

 of the sunfish family, and resemble each other 

 very much, the vernacular nomenclature is much 

 confused, and in some instances is interchangeable. 

 Some years ago I proposed to call them northern 

 and southern crappie ; but as the name calico-bass 

 has obtained considerable currency, it is best to 

 adopt that name for the northern species, leaving 

 the name crappie for the southern fonn. 



The calico-bass is found in the Great Lake 

 region and the upper Mississippi Valley, and 

 along the Atlantic slope from New Jersey to 

 Florida and Texas. Its ransfe has been con- 

 siderably extended by transplantation, even to 

 France, where it thrives well as a pond fish. It 

 is a handsome fish, resembling in its general 

 features and shape the sunfishes, but with a 

 thinner body and larger fins. It has a long head 

 and a large mouth, with thin lips and projecting 

 lower jaw. The eye is large with a dark, bluish 



