The food and game fishes of New York: . much more readily referred to a species of THE FOOD AND GAME FISHES OF NEW YORK. 391 Eniwacanthns, and tlic loceility near New York docs not possess this Sunfishamong its nati\e species. The Blue Sunfish, Blue Bream, Copper-nosed Bream or Dollardce is a very widelydiffused species and \aries greatly in size, color and length of the ear-flap. It isfound in the Great Lakes and throughout the Mississippi Valley to Mexico. Eastof the Alleghanies it ranges from New Jersey to Florida. In Pennsylvania it isabundant onl_\ in the western part of the .State, inchu
The food and game fishes of New York: . much more readily referred to a species of THE FOOD AND GAME FISHES OF NEW YORK. 391 Eniwacanthns, and tlic loceility near New York docs not possess this Sunfishamong its nati\e species. The Blue Sunfish, Blue Bream, Copper-nosed Bream or Dollardce is a very widelydiffused species and \aries greatly in size, color and length of the ear-flap. It isfound in the Great Lakes and throughout the Mississippi Valley to Mexico. Eastof the Alleghanies it ranges from New Jersey to Florida. In Pennsylvania it isabundant onl_\ in the western part of the .State, inchuling Lake Erie. Dr. Abbotthas recorded it from the Delaware River. Dr. Meek says that it is found in theCayuga Lake basin in small numbers with the Blue .Spotted Sunfish, Apoinotis cya-ncllus, which he took near Montezuma. It is recorded also from Chautauqua Lakeby Dr. Evermann. The Blue Sunfish grows to a length of nearly i foot, and individuals weighingnearly 2 pounds are on record. Adults, however, average 8 inches in length, with a. BLUE-GILL. weight of less than i pound. The size of the individuals depends on the large lakes and streams it grows to a greater size than in small bodies ofwater. In southern \\aters it attains to a larger size than in northern lives in ponds as well as in streams and thriws in warm waters. It is consid-ered ecpial to the Rock Bass as a pan fish and can very readily be taken by hookfishing. In spirits the color is pale brown, the scales with a pale margin ; a dark blotchon the hind part of the soft dorsal; a black opercular flap, its width and lengthabout equal, shorter than the eye. The living fish varies with age from lightgreen to dark green. The joung have the sides silvery, tinged with purple and 392 SEVENTH REPORT C)E THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. with mail}- vertical greenish bands, wliich are sometimes chain-like. The darkblotch of the soft dorsal is often indistinct in the young. In very old individualsthe
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