CHAPTER 1. 
A GLIMPSE OF ICHTHYOLOGY. 
LIMPSEs at the sciences are 
generally worse than 
superfluous, and to 
“drink deep or taste 
not” is the true ad- 
vice; but the angler 
and the general fisher- 
man may find it an 
advantage to know 
enough of ichthyolo- 
gy to qualify them for 
correctly describing 
the fish they catch, 
and it is for this ob- 
ject that the following “ ¢limpse” is submitted. The speci- 
men of the pike-perch, being the fish known in Ohio and 
some other states of the West as the salmon, is presented for 
teaching the names of fins. 
Tue Common Pike-rPeRCcH.—Lucivperca Americana. 
In describing a fish, the size, form, and color are given— 
the number, character, and position of the fins—and_ fre- 
