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though adult bass have been kept on beef and beef 

 livers. Bass fry take kindly to a fish diet, and thrive 

 and grow on it with little labor and time. 



It is doubtful if the practice of distributing very 

 young bass from nests — alevins — will prove success- 

 ful. They are exceedingly tender and peculiarly sus- 

 ceptible to changes of temperature. 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



THE CRAPPIES. 



Like the black basses, there are two species of this 

 genus, and they are difficult for the novice to distin- 

 guish. They are good fishes for warm ponds and 

 streams. In an article on "The Two Grapples," in 

 "Forest and Stream" of June 25, 1898, I took the 

 stand that, as they are as nearly alike as the black 

 basses are, they should be so classed. Heretofore but 

 one species had been called crappie, but as each had 

 a string of local names, many of them absurd, I ven- 

 tured to hope that in time my simplified nomencla- 

 ture will be accepted. 



SMALL MOUTH CRAPPIE {PfiiHOxys sparotdcs) . 



This pretty fish ranges from the 1-akes and ponds of 

 the Great Lake region, western New York, New Jer- 

 sey, the streams of the Garolinas and Georgia east of 



