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Following this several more immense small-mouth bass 

 were taken from the same waters and recorded by Mr. 

 Cheney, who tabulated them as follows : 



Captor. Weight. Length. Girth. 



Cheney 8% lbs. 22 in. ' 18% in. 



Reed 8% lbs. 22% in. 18% in. 



Boynton 8 lbs. 10 oz. 25 in. 18% in. 



Pardo 8 lbs. 12 oz. 23% in. 19 in. 



Parker 10 lbs. 25% in. ' 19 in. 



Seelye 11% lbs. 25 in. 21 in. 



Mr. Cheney commenting on the above said : 



" I weighed and measured Keed's, Boynton's, Parker's and my 

 own fish; the other figures were given to me by the people who 

 caught the fish and confirmed by witnesses." 



In preparing tables of exact measurements of the two 

 species, as also tables showing the relative weight as to 

 length, I found so much discrepancy in these respects in 

 the same species from different localities, and even in fish 

 from, the same section, owing to slight variations of shape 

 and conformation, that I concluded they woiild not sub- 

 serve the purposes of a general guide, and so omitted them. 

 This reason is very apparent as exemplified in the follow- 

 ing list of fish from contiguous waters. 



The " Toronto. Star " offered a prize of a fifteen-dollar 

 ■ rod to the angler taking the largest small-mouth bass in the 

 province of Ontario, Canada, during the summer of 1903, 

 the competition to close on September 15th. The fish 

 entered for the prize, and which were all from lakes, except 

 the last, a stream fish, were as follows: 



Length. Girth. Weight. 



23 in. 17 in. 7 lbs. 



21 in. 17 in. 6 lbs. 4 oz. 



22% in. 15% in. 6 lbs. % oz. 



