OHAPTEE X. 

 OuE Peeches. 



This is one of the most difficult subjects to 

 handle, connected with fish life; because every- 

 body knows a perch and has a name for it. The 

 authorities class all these, as well as black bass, 

 under the common denomination. 



Sun fishes, which, perhaps, is w«ll enough; 

 but why not Moon fishes ? 



The wall-eyed pike is also charged up as a 

 pike-perch, which it certainly is not. 



Since my boyhood days my idea has been fixed 

 that no long fish can be a perch — not even the 

 raccoon or yellow perch because of its shape. 

 Some other name ought to be found for these 

 fishes. 



There are many kinds of perch in our waters, 

 and their names are still more numerous and 

 very confusing. It is better simply to say you 

 caught a perch, if you would avoid an argument 

 without a settlement. 



Our perch run small compared with those of 



