Cope. | 4H: {June 7, 
A PARTIAL SYNOPSIS OF THE FISHES OF THE FRESH 
WATERS OF NORTH CAROLINA. 
By Epw. D. Corr, A.M. 
Read before the Amer. Philosophicut Society, June 7, 1870. 
The material on which the present investigation is based was, for the 
most part, procured by the writer during the autumn of 1869. A journey 
from the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee to the ocean, offered 
opportunity for making collections in the waters of five hydrographic 
basins, viz. : those of the Cumberland, Tennessee, Catawba, Yadkin and 
Neuse. The streams of the Tennessee examined were the Clinch and 
French Broad; the former in a tributary called Coal Creek, in Anderson 
Co., Tenn.; the latter at various points, both in the mountainous part of 
its course, and in the elevated and flat valley of Henderson Co., where it 
takes its rise. A small seine with fine meshes, kindly lent me by the ad- 
ministration of the Smithsonian Institution, was used in the smaller 
streams ; and fishermen’s apparatuses, especially weir traps, furnished 
most of the species inhabiting the river channels. Passing many of the 
latter at the time of year when the migratory fishes were descending, the 
writer was able to examine and procure them in great numbers. The 
opportunity of seeing fishes in life, it is believed, is no small aid to their 
proper specific determination. 
ACANTHOPTERYGII. 
PERCA, Linn. 
1. PERCA FLAVESCENS, Cuv. 
Neuse River. 
ROCCOUS, Gill. 
2. Roccus LingEatus, Bloch. 
Neuse River. ; 
STIZOSTEDIUM, Raf. 
3. STIZOSTEDIUM AMERICANUM, C. V. 
This is the largest Percoid of the Western waters, occasionally attain- 
ing a weight of 35 lbs.: no specimen of more than 10 lbs. came under my 
observation. It loves the most boisterous and rapid streams, ascending 
them to near their sources, having much the manners, and haunting the 
same waters as the trout, but of much more voracious habits. Its swift- 
ness enables it to take the black perch (Micopterus fasciatus) with ease, 
though that fish is, after it, much the most powerful swimmer of the 
rivers it inhabits. I took two from the stomach of a Lucioperca of eight 
pounds, one of which weighed 2} lbs. Suckers are used as bait in taking 
them by hook ; but the mode in which large specimens are most readily 
taken is by shooting. When the Lucioperca has gorged himself, he seeks 
some shallow bayou, and lies in a sluggish state, digesting his meal. Then 
