. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE LABQE-UOUTH BASS. THE BLACK BASSES. Fishing, if I, a fisher, may protest Of pleasure is the sweetest, of sports the hest Of exercises the most excellent; Of recreation the most innocent. But now the sport is marde, and wott ye why. Fishes decrease and fishers multiply. De Piscatione, 1598. T TNTIL recently, we supposed that there were many kinds of Black Basses. Different communities christened them to their own liking, and naturalists, mis
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE LABQE-UOUTH BASS. THE BLACK BASSES. Fishing, if I, a fisher, may protest Of pleasure is the sweetest, of sports the hest Of exercises the most excellent; Of recreation the most innocent. But now the sport is marde, and wott ye why. Fishes decrease and fishers multiply. De Piscatione, 1598. T TNTIL recently, we supposed that there were many kinds of Black Basses. Different communities christened them to their own liking, and naturalists, misled by the numerous popular names, described, as dis- tinct, forms which, had they been seen side by side, they would have con- sidered the same. Twenty-two separately named species are on record. In 1873, Prof. Gill, after studying specimens gathered from all parts of the United States by the Smithsonian Institution, came to the decision that there were only two species, the Large-mouthed and tlie Small-mouthed bass. This was easy work for so accomplished an ichthyologist as Gill, but the difficulty was to determine the ownership of the many names already established in the literature of ichthyology. After five years of uncertainty, and several changes, thirteen of these have been allotted to the Small-mouth, and the remainder of nine to its cousin with the long jaw. The oldest name for the Large-mouth is Micropterus salmoides, and for the Small-mouth, as Henshall has proved, Micropterus Dolomiei: it is hoped that this decision, which is grounded upon a firm foundation of priority, maybe permitted to stand unchanged. Gill's paper, in which he defines the differences between the two species, was published in 1873 in the Pro- ceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfe
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