. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. THE EASTERN DACE—SEMOTILUS CORPORALIS. length of eighteen inches, being the largest of the Cyprinidae east of theRocky THE FALL-FISH—SEMOTILUS BULLARIS. It is very common in the Delaware Basin, more so, perhaps, in theSusquehanna, but a common form in the head waters of the Atlantic-flow-ing streams of Virginia and the Carolinas. Hallock says that it has beencaught weighing four pounds, that it is much esteemed as food, and affordsgood spor

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. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. THE EASTERN DACE—SEMOTILUS CORPORALIS. length of eighteen inches, being the largest of the Cyprinidae east of theRocky THE FALL-FISH—SEMOTILUS BULLARIS. It is very common in the Delaware Basin, more so, perhaps, in theSusquehanna, but a common form in the head waters of the Atlantic-flow-ing streams of Virginia and the Carolinas. Hallock says that it has beencaught weighing four pounds, that it is much esteemed as food, and affordsgood sport for the angler. I have myself taken them with light tackle andfound them as gamy as brook trout in preserved streams. In Massachu-setts it is often called the Cousin Trout in allusion to its trout-likehabits, and also the Chiven from its resemblance to the English Chubor Cheven. The mention of the American Roach brings us to the considerationof the Old World species, which it much resembles in habits. This is CARP, DACE AND MINNOW. 429 Leuciscw; rutilus, the Plotze of the Germans, and the Rosse of theFrench.

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