192 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
19. Querimana gyrans Jordan & Gilbert. (b, c .) This diminutive mullet was very abundant in 
small schools in Davis Bay, where hundreds were taken in company with the other smaller 
fishes credited to that place. In Newbegun Creek the species was rare, only one specimen 
being obtained in numerous hauls of the seine. 
This species was originally described from Key West, Fla.., and has not previously been 
observed north of Charleston, S. C. It is a marine fish, whose occurrence in the Albemarle 
region so far from salt water is a matter of considerable interest.* The specimens at. hand 
agree very closely with the original description by Jordan &, Gilbert.. t The points of simi 
larity and difference are brought out in the following comparative table : 
Locality. 
Head . 
Depth. 
Eye in 
head. 
Eye ill 
snout. 
Eye in 
inter- 
orbital. 
Dorsal. 
Anal. 
Scales. 
3* 
31 
3f 
3 
i 
i 
1 
IV 1,7 
11,7 
11,9 
28 or 29 
i 
IV-1,8 
28 to 30 
Examples from this region are uniformly larger than the types, being from li to 1 1 
inches long, instead of f of an inch; Dr. Jordan and others, however, have since taken 
specimens as large as ours. The opercles and cheeks are covered with large scales, which 
are, deciduous and often absent in alcoholic specimens. 
20. Menidia beryllina (Cope). (6, c.) Eight specimens about 2 inches long. Head, 4£; depth, 5^; 
eye, 3; dorsal, iv-i,10, v-i,10, or v-i,ll ; anal, i,16 or i,17 ; scales, 40-8. 
21. Pomoxis sparoides (Lacepede). Speckled perch, (a, c.) Common. 
22. Lepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus). Bobin perch, (a, c.) Very abundant. 
23. Micropterus salmoides (Lacdpbde). Chub; Welchman, (a.) Abundant. Often seen jumping 
out of the water. 
24. Etheostoma nigrum olmstedi (Storer). (c.) Two specimens. 
25. Perea flavescens (Mitchill). Bedfin. (a, c. ) Spawns in February. Less abundant and valuable 
than the white perch. The paired and anal fins are bright red, whence the local name. 
26. Stizostedion vitreum (Mitchill). Wall-eyed pike ; Salt-water pike ; California salmon, (a, c.) In 
the Pasquotank River numbers of these fish are taken by the net fishermen; they are 12 to 
15 inches long and are said to have been known in the river only a few years. Under the 
mistaken impression that they are salt-water fish which have wandered here, some of the 
fishermen call them “salt-water pike,” to distinguish them from the fresh-water pike {Lucius). 
The equally inappropriate name of “California Salmon” was also heard in the lower part of 
the river. The fish are hardly abundant enough to have commercial importance. They 
have become popular locally, however, and always meet with ready sale. 
27. Roccus lineatus (Bloch). Bock, (a.) A common spring migrant in the Pasquotank. Speci- 
mens from 6 to 30 inches long observed. 
28. Morone americana (Graelin). Perch. {a,b.) More numerous and more valuable as a food-fish 
than the yellow perch. Young fish 2 or 3 inches in length very abundant, seined with 
Hybognathus nuchalis, Menidia beryllina, Querimana gyrans, etc. 
*The range of this species has recently been still further extended by its capture in the Chesa- 
peake Bay. Mr. W. C. Kendall, of the IT. S. Fish Commission steamer Fish Hawk, states that the fish 
was abundant in the lower Chesapeake and a number of specimens were taken July 8, 1892. Mr. 
Kendall observed the fish gyrating, as described by Jordan <fe Gilbert, a habit not observed by the 
writer in North Carolina. 
tProc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 7, 1884, p. 26. 
