. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. 422 AMERICAN FISHES. It would seem that before England came to America this word had be- come associated with an idea to such a degree that the fish, the little "gojone' * of the English middle ages, had been almost lost sight of, and this will account for the curious fact that the Gudgeon was almost the only common fish of the motherland whose name was not given to several smaller forms in different parts of Colonial America. It was only
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. 422 AMERICAN FISHES. It would seem that before England came to America this word had be- come associated with an idea to such a degree that the fish, the little "gojone' * of the English middle ages, had been almost lost sight of, and this will account for the curious fact that the Gudgeon was almost the only common fish of the motherland whose name was not given to several smaller forms in different parts of Colonial America. It was only in Virginia, which was the most English of all the colonies^ and at the head of the Chesapeake, that the name was adopted. The Gudgeons of the Tuckahoes are the little cyprinodents, known as " mum- michogs " in New England and " killifish " in the Middle States, belong- ing to Fundulus, Hydrargyra and related genera. The Gudgeon of the Patapsco and the lower Susquehannah is a cyprinoid fish, HybognatJms regins. Gudgeon fishing at Relay House and in that vicinity is a favorite sport of the Baltimore people in April. The Gudgeons then ascend the PatapscOy to spawn and are taken in vast numbers with the finest of tackles and. worms or maggots for bait.*. THE AMERICAN RIVER CHUB—CERATICHTHYS BIGUTTATUS. Zoologically speaking, the nearest kindred of the Gudgeon on this side- of the Atlantic are the members of the genus Ceratichthys, (or Nocomis)\ of which we have at least twenty species, the best known of which is our "Horny Head" or River Chub, Ceratichthys bigiittatus, which is one of' the most widely diffused of fresh-water fishes, occurring from New York to Utah and Alabama. It reaches a length of ten or twelve inches. It in- habits larger streams than the Horned Dace, which delights in little brooks. It takes the hook readily, and throughout the southwest is a great: * Gudgeon-fishing in Maryland, Ajnerican Angler, iii, Please note that the
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