224 Modern Fishculture in Fresh and Salt Water, 



NAMES. 



When you know that such names as goggle-eye, 

 gogg'le-eyed perch — used also for thp rock bass — 

 grass bass, strawberry bass, bitter head, lamplighter, 

 bank-lick bass, calico bass and sac-a-lai, are applied to 

 these fishes indiscriminate!)', as well as crappie, you 

 will agree that it is time for some one to take hold 

 and straighten out the tangle, and this I have under- 

 taken in the hope that in time the names I have sug- 

 gested will stick. 



VALUE OF THE CRAPPIES. 



The State of New York has distributed a few 

 small niiOuth crappies under the absurd name of 

 "strawberry bass," but they should be in every pond 

 where there are no trout, but where perch and sunfish 

 abound. They have been neglected because we have 

 a wealth of such fishes and no writer has presented 

 the claims of these to the angler and fishculturist, if -ve 

 except the late Prof. Kirtland, of Ohio, who said of 

 the small mouth crappie, using the local name : 



"The 'grass bass' has not hitherto been deemed 

 worthy of consideration by fishculturists ; yet, from a 

 long and intimate acquaintance with its merits, I hesi- 

 tate not to pronounce it the fish for the million. [Ital- 

 ics are Dr. Kirtland's.] It is a native of our \\'estem 

 rivers and lakes, where it usually resorts to deep and 

 sluggish waters ; yet in several instances, where it has 

 found its way into cold and rapid streams, and even 

 small-sized brooks, by means of the constructing of 



