PEECID^. — xc. 229 



■western States, Northern Ohio to Minnesota; abundant; 

 a most brilliant species. 



17. MICROPERCA, Putnam. Least Daetees. 

 1. HI. punctulata, Putnam. Least Daetee. Greenish 

 olive, sides with irregular dark bars and zigzag markings; 

 dusky lines along the rows of scales; a dark shoulder 

 blotch; a black streak forward from eye and a vertical 

 bar below it; D. VI to VII— 9 to 13; A. II, 5 or 6; 

 length li inches. Western States. 



FAMILY XC— PERCID^. 



{The Perches.) 

 Body oblong, more or less compressed, covered with 

 rather small, strongly ctenoid scales; opercular bones 

 mostly serrated; teeth in villiform bands on jaws, vomer 

 and palatines; mouth slightly oblique; dorsals two, dis- 

 tinct, both well developed; ventrals thoracic I, 5; anal 

 with one or two spines ; branchiostegals seven ; air bladder 

 present, moderately developed; intestinal canal with a 

 few pyloric cceoa. Carnivorous fishes of moderate or 

 rather large size, chiefly of the rivers of the Northern 

 Hemisphere. As here restricted, a small family of about 

 five genera and fifteen species. 



* JSTo canine teeth among the villiform ones ; body compressed. 



Peeca, 1. 



** With strong canine teeth; body elongated. Stizostbthidm, 3. 



/. PERCA, Linnaeus. Peeches. 

 1. P. amer/'cana, Schranck. Common Yellow Peech. 

 Olivaceous, sides yellowish, with broad dark bars; head 

 3i in length; depth about the same; D. XIII — 14; A. 

 II, 7; lat. 1. 63. Fresh waters E. U. S., chiefly north- 

 ward and eastward. [P. flavescens (Hit.) Ouv.] 



