American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . a boy takea dull knife and proceed to follow a fish line down a bullheadfrom head to the end of his subsequent anatomy, and all thetime there would be an expression of sweet peace on thecountenance of the bullhead, as though he enjoyed it. If wewere preparing a picture representing Resignation,for a chromoto give to subscribers, and wished to represent a scene of suf-ering in which the sufferer was light-hearted
American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . a boy takea dull knife and proceed to follow a fish line down a bullheadfrom head to the end of his subsequent anatomy, and all thetime there would be an expression of sweet peace on thecountenance of the bullhead, as though he enjoyed it. If wewere preparing a picture representing Resignation,for a chromoto give to subscribers, and wished to represent a scene of suf-ering in which the sufferer was light-hearted, seeming to recog-nize that all was for the best, we should take for the subjecta bullhead, with a boy searching with a knife for a long-lostfish hook. The bullhead is a fish that has no scales, but in lieuthereof has a fine India-rubber skin, that is as far ahead of 29 The Black Bullhead fiddle-String material for strength and durability as possible. Themeat of the bullhead is not as choice as that of the mackerel,but it fills up a stomach just as well, and The Sun insists thatthe fish commissioners shall drop the hatching of aristocratic fishand give the bullheads a Black Bullhead Amciunts inclas (Rafincsque) This is our smallest species of Ameiurus, and rarely exceeds6 to TO inches in length. It is found in brooks, ponds andlakes, from northern New York westward to Kansas and Nebraska,and south to Texas, and is usually abundant, especially west ofthe Mississippi. It closely resembles the common bullhead,but can usually be easily distinguished by the smaller anal fin, thelight rays and dark membranes of the anal fin, and the smallersize. Its habits are essentially those of the related species. It thrivesin small ponds, especially in those with muck bottom, and on thisspecies in Wyoming County, New York, the senior writer madehis first experiments in fish-culture. Head 3f in length of body; depth ^\ to 4ki A. 17 to very short and deep; head broad behind, rath
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