. The American angler's book : embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them : with instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making, and directions for fish-breeding : to which is appended, Dies piscatoriae, describing noted fishing-places and the pleasures of solitary fly-fishing. Fishing; Fishes. THE PERCH FAMILY. II5. SUNFISH. Pomotis vulgaris: Cuvier. There are several species of Pomotis, and even fish of other genera known as " SunfishJ^ A diminutive species of the genns Centrachus is constantly called by that name. I have taken a synopsis of a de
. The American angler's book : embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them : with instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making, and directions for fish-breeding : to which is appended, Dies piscatoriae, describing noted fishing-places and the pleasures of solitary fly-fishing. Fishing; Fishes. THE PERCH FAMILY. II5. SUNFISH. Pomotis vulgaris: Cuvier. There are several species of Pomotis, and even fish of other genera known as " SunfishJ^ A diminutive species of the genns Centrachus is constantly called by that name. I have taken a synopsis of a description of the true Sunfish {Pomotis vulgaris), from Holbrook, one of the most exact ichthyologists of our day. Body ovoidal in form, convex above and below, but straight on the belly; color of body brown, with a greenish tint above, with pale blue, waving, horizontal lines on the preo- percle and opercle. Opercular appendix dark, with a bright red blotch on its posterior margin. The dorsal fin has ten spines and eleven rays; pectorals, thirteen rays; ventrals, one spine, and five rays; anal, three spines and ten raj^s; caudal, seven- teen rays. Mouth small, rather protractile, and armed with small thickly-set teeth. Extreme length eight inches. •This beautiful little fish, associated in the minds of all anglers with the first rudiments of a piscatorial education, is known in the Middle and Southern States as the Sunfish or. 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 perfectly resemble the original Norris, Thaddeus, 1811-1877; Norris, Thaddeus, 1811-1877. Dies piscatoriae. Philadelphia : E. H. Butler ; London : Sampson, Low
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