The food and game fishes of New York: . UETORT OF THE EOkEST, EISII AND GAME COMMISSION. 105. Small-mouthed Black Bass \Microptcnis dolomicu Lacepede). Microptcnis Jolomieu Mathkk, Ap]). 12th Re])t. Adirondack Surv. N. Y., 5, 1886; Meek,Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci., IV, 313, 1888; Kean, Fishes Penna., 116, color pi. r i, 1893;JoKDAN & EvERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1011, 1896, pi. CLXII, figs. 430,430;?, 1900; Bean, Bid!. .i. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, 364, 1897; Mearns, id., X, 320,1898; EuoENE Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y. 1897, 35, 1898. Cfiitrardnis ohsciinis DeKav, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 30, ]il. 17
The food and game fishes of New York: . UETORT OF THE EOkEST, EISII AND GAME COMMISSION. 105. Small-mouthed Black Bass \Microptcnis dolomicu Lacepede). Microptcnis Jolomieu Mathkk, Ap]). 12th Re])t. Adirondack Surv. N. Y., 5, 1886; Meek,Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci., IV, 313, 1888; Kean, Fishes Penna., 116, color pi. r i, 1893;JoKDAN & EvERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1011, 1896, pi. CLXII, figs. 430,430;?, 1900; Bean, Bid!. .i. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, 364, 1897; Mearns, id., X, 320,1898; EuoENE Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y. 1897, 35, 1898. Cfiitrardnis ohsciinis DeKav, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 30, ]il. 17, fg. 48, 1842, OnondagaCreek, N. Y. One of the early names for the Small-moutheil Black Bass is that of Growler,which ajjpears in tlic writings of Cuvier, who was under the impression that thename was applied because of a noise sometimes produced by this bass. At the timeof his writing the name Growler was pretty generally identified with the Black the names applied to this fish by Rafinesquc are 1-ake Bass, Big Bass,. SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS. Spotted Bass, and Achigan. He also mentions it under the names Painted Tail,Bridge Perch. Yellow Bass, (Sold Bass, Brown Bass, Dark Bass, Minny Bass, LittleBass, Hog Bass, Yellow Perch, Black Perch, Trout Perch, Black Pearch, StreakedHead, White Trout and Brown Trout. In the Southern States the Small Mouth isknown as the Trout, Perch ami Jumper. In Alabama it is called Mountain persons style it the Bronze Backer. The most appropriate name and the oneby which it is best known is that of Black Bass or Small-mouthed Black Bass. This species is indigenous to the upper parts of the St. Lawrence basin, the GreatLakes region and the basin of the Mississippi. East of the Alleghanies it is nativeto the headwaters of the Ocmulgee and Chattahoochee Rivers, bvit north of thesestreams, though not originally an inhabitant of the waters, it has been widely dis-tributetl by introduction. In the St. Lawrence River Everma
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