The American angler . their meals, which consists of scrapedraw beef or I. X. L. fish food, immensely. Their native home is the La Plata valley;the South Americans call them Chanchitos, Peculiar Coloration of Black Bass. The originals of the colored plates of theblack basses, large and small-mouthed, in num-bers seven and eight of The Fishes of NorthAmerica, were painted from specimens caughtin Greenwood Lake, where we camped, with theartist, for seventeen days last summer. Thecoloration of these two fish was very striking,that of the large-mouthed having more yellowon it than appeared in any
The American angler . their meals, which consists of scrapedraw beef or I. X. L. fish food, immensely. Their native home is the La Plata valley;the South Americans call them Chanchitos, Peculiar Coloration of Black Bass. The originals of the colored plates of theblack basses, large and small-mouthed, in num-bers seven and eight of The Fishes of NorthAmerica, were painted from specimens caughtin Greenwood Lake, where we camped, with theartist, for seventeen days last summer. Thecoloration of these two fish was very striking,that of the large-mouthed having more yellowon it than appeared in any other fish of like ilkwe have ever seen, and the bluish cream tint onthe belly of the small-mouthed is unique andalmost exceptionable, the majority of thisspecies, as we find it in eastern waters, having apepper and salt coloration over a faintcreamy background. We make note of thesefacts as a forcible reminder to all interested,that the portraits of fishes, in The Fishes ofNorth America, are painted from fish caught. The Brazilian Zebra Fish. which means pig, either because their shapeis somewhat like that animal or because theyfight in a similar manner to that of youngpigs. In Germany the name chameleon fishis proposed, owing to the ability of the fish tochange its colors. This, however, we considerno denominative feature, as nearly all of oursunfish and also the Chinese Paradise fishpossess this ability, in some cases even to agreater extent than the zebra fish does. Weselected the latter name for them, because wefind that through their color and stripes thisfish resembles a zebra more than anythingelse, especially when the fish are most bril-liant in colors and the yellow aj^pears in thedorsal fin; even the markings of the mane ofthe zebra are then represented. on the rod of the Editor, and not from fishcaught by some other fellow. The New York Fish Commission. Governor Morton sent to the Senate thenomination of the following gentlemen to bef sh and game and forest commissi
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