Fishes . o a. f ao o The Life of the Fish 3 nati, among the low wooded hills from which clear brooks flowover gravelly bottoms toward the Ohio River. Here we will catchsunfishes of certain species, or maybe rock bass or catfish: anyof these will do for our purpose. But one of our sunfishes isespecially beautiful—mottled blue and golden and scarlet, witha long, black, ear-like appendage backward from his gill-covers—and this one we will keep and hold for our first lesson in is a small fish, not longer than your hand most likely, but itcan take the bait as savagely as the best, swimmin
Fishes . o a. f ao o The Life of the Fish 3 nati, among the low wooded hills from which clear brooks flowover gravelly bottoms toward the Ohio River. Here we will catchsunfishes of certain species, or maybe rock bass or catfish: anyof these will do for our purpose. But one of our sunfishes isespecially beautiful—mottled blue and golden and scarlet, witha long, black, ear-like appendage backward from his gill-covers—and this one we will keep and hold for our first lesson in is a small fish, not longer than your hand most likely, but itcan take the bait as savagely as the best, swimming away withit with such force that you might think from the vigor of itspull that you have a pickerel or a bass. But when it comes outof the water you see a little, flapping, unhappy, living plate of. Fig. 2.—Long-eared Sunfish, Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque). (From Clear Creek,Bloomington, Indiana.) Family Centrarchidte. brown and blue and orange, with fins wide-spread and eyesred with rage. Form of the Fish.—And now we have put the fish into abucket of water, where it lies close to the bottom. Then we takeit home and place it in an aquarium, and for the first time wehave a chance to see what it is like. We see that its body isalmost elhptical in outline, but with flat sides and shaped on thelower parts very much like a boat. This form we see is such asto enable it to part the water as it swims. We notice that itsprogress comes through the sculling motion of its broad, flat tail. 4 The Life of the Fish Face of a Fish.—When we look at the sunfish from the frontwe see that it has a sort of face, not unlike that of higher big eyes, one on each side, stand out without eyelids, but thefish can move them at will, so that once in a while he seems towink. There isnt much
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