470 Fisuine in AMERICAN WATERS. 
have heard of larger ones, but its usual weight is about 
three pounds. it inhabits both ponds and streams; is non- 
migratory. Bites at feathered squids, flies, minnows, but 
seldom at worms. The color above lateral line is blue, fad- 
ing to creamy white below middle of side. Mouth large, 
and lower jaw projecting; has card-like teeth on the upper 
and lower edges of the jaw; eye large; throat and breast 
always white. Very active and strong; spawns during all 
the summer months; bites best in fall and spring. The 
perch-chub should be angled for with regular black-bass 
tackle, the rod being pliable, but with snap enough in the 
lance-wood top to respond and hook the fish at first inten- 
tion.—B. F. Moore, Jun. 
SECTION SECOND. 
Cuus-Ropin.—Pomobis rubellus. 
This gamy little pan-fish inhabits many streams and lakes 
of the South and South-west, but its natural latitude is from 
Virginia and the Carolinas, westward. My brother having 
taken it in Western Missouri, induced me to procure a draw- 
ing and description of it, which has been done by a true an- 
gler and ichthyologist, Font Taylor, Esq., of Raleigh, North 
Carolina. 
