. 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 BLACK BASSES. 55 This volume is, however, not easily accessible, and the important differences are therefore repeated in this place. In the Large-mouth the upper jaw extends far behind the eye; in the other to a point below it. The Large-mouth has from sixty-five to seventy rows between the gill- opening and the base of the tail, instead of seventy-two or more, while on the cheek there are about ten oblique rows instead of seventeen, also s
. 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 BLACK BASSES. 55 This volume is, however, not easily accessible, and the important differences are therefore repeated in this place. In the Large-mouth the upper jaw extends far behind the eye; in the other to a point below it. The Large-mouth has from sixty-five to seventy rows between the gill- opening and the base of the tail, instead of seventy-two or more, while on the cheek there are about ten oblique rows instead of seventeen, also seven- and-a-half to eight instead of eleven rows between the lateral line and the dorsal. There are other distinctions, such as the absence, in the Large- mouth, of scales on the bases of the dorsal and anal fins, the smaller num- ber of rays in the pectoral fins (there being thirteen or fourteen instead of sixteen or seventeen), and the lesser height of the spinous dorsal. (In the Large-mouth the first dorsal spin is one-half; in the Small-mouth, one- third of the height of the third dorsal spin).. THE SMALL-MOUTH BASS. Numerous as have been the zoological names, they are outnumbered by the popular names still in use in different localities. Charlevoix, a Jesuit missionary, who explored Canada in 17^ i, mentions a fish called '' Achigan,'' which is thought to have been the Large-mouth. An earlier allusion to this species, which in the Southern States is still called ''Trout," occurs in the writings of Rene de Laudonniere, who described the incidents of the first Huguenot expedition to Florida in 1652, under the command of Jean Ribault. The Large-mouth is known in the Great Lake Region, especially in Northern New York, as the ''Oswego ; This name should not be confounded with " Otsego Bass," a local name for the com- mon whitefish. In Kentucky, and possibly in Florida, it is called "Jumper;" in Indiana, "Moss Bass;" in the Southern S
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