THE MINOR BASSES (b L A C K-B A S S F A M I L y) 



strawberry-perch, razorback, fiyfish, chinquapin- 

 perch, lake shad, silver bass, big-fin bass, goggle- 

 eye, or goggle-eyed perch. 



The Crappie 



The Southern form, known very generally as the 

 crappie, is also locally called bachelor, New-light, 

 CampbelUte, sac-a-lait, crapet, tinmouth, bride- 

 perch, chub, speckled perch, John Demon, and 

 shad. It must also not be forgotten that nearly 

 all these names are applied indiscriminately to both 

 species of this fish. Could confusion be worse con- 

 founded? 



To distinguish these two species at sight is not an 

 easy matter, particularly when both are taken from 

 the same water, possess the same physical condi- 

 tions, and live upon the same food, which so affects 

 the coloration as to lead to a similarity in hues and 

 tints. In the crappie ( Southern) the profile is more 

 or less strongly S-shaped, the mouth is very wide, 

 and the rows of scales on the cheek (a space back 

 of the eye) are four or five in number. 



" Color silvery olive, mottled with dark green, with dark 

 marks chiefly on the upper part of the body with a ten- 

 dency to form narrow vertical bars." 



The dorsal fin has six spines and fifteen rays. The 

 cahco-bass (Northern) is a much broader fish than 



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