The Food of Fishes. 
Table of Food of Adult Centrarchid.e — Continued. 
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Micropterus 
pallidus. 
Micropterus 
salmoides. 
Ambloplites. 
Chaenobryttus. 
Apomotis. 
Lepiopomus. 
Xenotis. 
Eupomotis. 
Centrarchus. 
Pomoxys. 
Number of specimens.. . 
III. Insecta. 
14 
t 
3 
4 
52 
6 
54 
8 
42 
24 
45 
6 
82 
9 
20 
2 
91 
07 
06 
06 
27 
73 
01 
01 
I. Hymenoptera (ants).. 
2. Diptera (larvae) 
06 
01 
37 
37 
06 
04 
01 
01 
02 
Chironomus 
3. Coleoptera 
03 
10 
10 
18 
05 
05 
93 
13 
06 
Terrestrial 
Aquatic 
03 
02 
23 
01 
01 
4. Hemiptera (Corixa).. 
5. Orthoptera 
t 
02 
02 
24 
03 
02 
12 
06 
03 
1 7 
6. Neuroptera 
t 
42 
21 
25 
25 
25 
33 
27 
01 
02 
04 
16 
l 7 
04 
03 
08 
55 
55 
68 
52 
52 
13 
01 
Ephemeridae 
Palingenia 
Odonata 
06 
Sialidae 
Phryganeidae 
15 
t 
3 * 
3 i 
08 
01 
IV. Arachnida 
V. Crustacea 
'Decapoda 
07 
07 
62 
62 
t 
20 
20 
18 
01 
1 7 
I 
t 
03 
22 
09 
12 
Tetradecapoda 
03 
22 
Entomostraca 
t 
t 
09 
12 
12 
Cladocera 
Ostracoda 
Copepoda 
- 
09 
t 
VI. Polyzoa 
02 
VII. Vegetation ... 
Miscellaneous 
t 
07 
02 
02 
24 
12 
t 
Haploidonotus grunniens, Raf. Sheepshead. Grunting 
Perch. 
This species is abundant in Lake Michigan and the 
larger rivers, occurring in the smaller streams rarely, at 
periods of exceptionally high water. It is sometimes 
eaten, but is regarded usually as unfit for food. 
But six of the twenty-five specimens studied were 
young, and the smallest of these, from the Ohio R., in 
September, was an inch and an eighth in length. Seventy- 
five per cent, of its food was larvie of Chironomus and 
twenty-five per cent. larvsB of Palingenia bilineata. Be- 
sides the usual indications that the food of the very young 
is made up of minute animals, we see here evidence that 
this species seeks its food from the first upon the bottom. 
