. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . f the humbler forms, which supplyfood to the carnivorous water-aristocrats, and render trout and bassculture possible. The most familiar member of this group is the Brook Mullet,Moxostoma macrolcpidotum, also called Red Horse in Pennsylvania,and elsewhere, and pretty generally distributed east of the Rocky Moun-tains, except in Eastern New England. The form which occurs in theOhio and Missouri has a larger head and larger mouth, and is generallycatalo
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . f the humbler forms, which supplyfood to the carnivorous water-aristocrats, and render trout and bassculture possible. The most familiar member of this group is the Brook Mullet,Moxostoma macrolcpidotum, also called Red Horse in Pennsylvania,and elsewhere, and pretty generally distributed east of the Rocky Moun-tains, except in Eastern New England. The form which occurs in theOhio and Missouri has a larger head and larger mouth, and is generallycatalogued as a variety or sub-species Ditquesnii. This form is shown inthe cut, which represents a specimen from Ecorse, Michigan. The eastern form occurs in the Great Lakes, together with the allied 438 AMERICAN FISHES. M. aureolas, and is common in the markets. Philadelphia receives alarge supply from the Susquehanna and the Delaware. It is sometimes,called the Lake Shad. There are four species of good size in the-Catawba and other streams of the Southern Alleghanies. The Mulletsand the Red Horses sometimes grow to the weight of four THR TTESTERN KED HORSE. The Buffalo-fish, Buhalictliyina, so called from the bull-like humpon the nape, are found mainly in the river channels of the Mississippiand its tributaries. They are the largest of the Suckers, reaching a weightof fifteen pounds or more. In the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys they forma large percentage of the food-fish consumed. They usually bring a betterprice than the smaller Suckers, excepting the Black Horse. The Buffalo-fishes are found by Prof. Forbes to feed on small crustaceans more thando the other Suckers, and less on mollusks.
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