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the plants have included some strawberry bass or calico bass (P. sparoides ), which 
inhabits some of the same waters as the crappy or bachelor. Both these members of 
the sunfish family are valuable food and game species, attaining a length of 1 foot and 
a weight of 1J pounds. 
THE ROCK BASS. 
Four full-grown rock bass ( Ambloplites rupestris ) obtained in the Missisquoi River, 
Vermont, were taken to California by Mr. Livingston Stone in 1874 and deposited in 
Napa Creek, a tributary of San Pablo Bay, on June 12. No known results have 
attended the planting of these fish, although the black bass placed in the same waters 
at the same time have greatly multiplied. 
The rock bass or red-eye perch is found in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys and 
in the Great Lakes. It attains a weight of 1.J pounds, is a hardy, gamy fish that 
takes the hook readily, and is a palatable pan-fish. Like the black bass, it builds a 
nest and protects its young. 
THE WARMOUTH BASS. 
A few small plants of this member of the sunfish family ( Centrarchidce ), to which 
the black bass, rock bass, and crappy belong, have been made in California, Wash- 
ington, and Idaho. It is a hardy species, adapted to quiet waters, aud is naturally 
found in the coast States from Virginia to Texas, in the Mississippi basin, and in the 
Great Lakes. It closely resembles the rock bass in size, habits, food value, aud game 
qualities. 
Four hundred yearling warmouth bass ( Chcenobryttus gulosus ), from Quincy, 111., 
were placed in Lake Cuyamaca, near San Diego, Cal., in 1891. In the same year 100 
yearlings were deposited in Feather River, near Gridley, in Butte County, Cal. A 
plant of 201 yearlings was made in Boise River, near Boise, Idaho, in 1892. In Loon 
Lake, Washington, 29 yearlings were placed in 1892. No reports from any of these 
fish have been received. Of 12 fish delivered to the California fish commission in 
June, 1895, 6 were alive in December, 1895, in a pond at Sisson. 
THE SUNFISHES. 
Small plants of the green sunfish ( Lepomis eyanellus) and the blue-gill or blue 
bream ( Lepomis pallidus) have been made in public waters of Washington and California 
by the United States Fish Commission. The Washington consignments consisted 
of 25 yearlings in Loon Lake and 25 in Lake Colville in 1890; 300 in Loon Lake 
and 150 in Deer Lake in 1891, aud 9 in Deer Lake in 1892. In 1895, 12 yearlings were 
delivered to the California State hatchery at Sisson, 18 were put in Elsinore Lake, 
and 18 in the Balsa Chico River. A few sunfish were accidentally introduced with 
other fish into Lake Cuyamaca near San Diego in 1891. 
It is not known with certainty which of the numerous species of sunfish inhabit- 
ing the United States have been taken to the Pacific States; but as the shipments 
were made from Quincy, 111., and as both of the species named are common in that 
vicinity, it is probable that they have been introduced. Dr. Jordan has identified as 
Lepomis eyanellus specimens of sunfish obtained in Lake Cuyamaca by Mr. Fletcher, 
of the California commission. 
