368 RECREATION. 
pounds being the largest I have ever 
heard of. It is superior in taste to the 
wall-eye and gamier for its size. 
C. H. Scholer, Key West, Fla. 
ANSWER. 
The ‘“‘striped bass of the ocean,” to 
which Mr. Scholer refers, is the striped 
North as St. Paul, though its usual range 
is the lower Mississippi valley, North to 
the Ohio and Wabash. It may be most 
easily distinguished from the striped bass 
or the white bass by the interrupted or 
broken black lines. 
The “mooneye” which Mr. Scholer 
mentions is one or the other of the 2 

MORONE INTERRUPTA (Gill). YELLOW BASS. ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. 
bass, rockfish, or rock, Roccus lineatus, 
which occurs along the Atlantic coast of 
the United States from New Brunswick to 
Pensacola. It is perhaps most abundant 
on the North Carolina coast. It is an 
anadromous fish, living in salt water 
most of the time but entering fresh water 
to. spawn. It attains a great size, exam- 
ples of 100 pounds or more having been 
recorded. Several years ago it was, 
introduced by the United States Fish 
Commissioner into San- Francisco bay, 
where it is now one of the most abundant 
and most valued food fishes. 
It is not known from the Mississippi 
river or any of its tributaries. The fish 
which Mr. Scholer caught at St. Paul 
was not this species, but the white bass, 
or white lake bass, Roccus chrysops, a spe- 
cies somewhat resembling the striped 
bass. The principal differences are shown 
in the accompanying illustrations. 
The white bass is found throughout the 
Great Lakes region, the upper Mississippi 
and Ohio valleys, and South to Arkansas. 
It is not found East of the Alleghanies, 
nor in salt water. It seldom exceeds a 
foot in length. The yellow bass, of which 
a figure is also given, may occur as far 
common species of Hiodon, most likely 
Hiodon tergisus, usually known as the 
mooneye or toothed herring. It occurs 
throughout the Great Lakes and Missis- 
sippi valley, and North to Assiniboia. 
Sand pike or sauger is the correct name 
for the last fish Mr. Scholer mentions. 
Its scientific name is Stigostedion cana- 
dense, and it is found from Vermont to 
Montana and South to Tennessee and 
Arkansas. It is especially abundant 
Northward. Mr. S. rightly distinguishes 
it from the wall-eyed pike which it closely 
resembles. The surest way of distinguish- 
ing these 2 species, however, is by the 
number of pyloric cceca attached to the 
stomach. There are but 3 in the wall-eyed 
pike and they are about of equal length; 
while in the sand pike there are 4 to 7, 
and they are of unequal length. 
B. W. Evermann, 
U. S. Fish Commission. 
Why don’t you join the L. A. S? Are 
you not willing to contribute $1 a year to 
increase the supply of game and game 
fishes, of song and insectivorous birds? 
Please answer. 

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