. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. THE WHITE PERCH. Moronc amcricana. Nor let the Muse, in her award of fame,Illustrious Perch, unnoticed pass thy claim,Prince of the prickly cohort, bred in lakes,To feast our boards, what sapid boneless flakesThy solid flesh supplies ! though overfed,No dantier fish in oceans pastures bred Swims thy compeer. AusoNius, The Moselle. npHE apostrophe of Ausonius was prophetic, for his words apply muchmore exactly to the species of Morone now under discussi
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. THE WHITE PERCH. Moronc amcricana. Nor let the Muse, in her award of fame,Illustrious Perch, unnoticed pass thy claim,Prince of the prickly cohort, bred in lakes,To feast our boards, what sapid boneless flakesThy solid flesh supplies ! though overfed,No dantier fish in oceans pastures bred Swims thy compeer. AusoNius, The Moselle. npHE apostrophe of Ausonius was prophetic, for his words apply muchmore exactly to the species of Morone now under discussion than tothe Perca which the poet had in mind. This fish, closely related to the Yellow Bass, occurs in brackish waterin the mouths of rivers, and even, in many instances, in fresh-water ponds,where it had become land-locked, and all along the coast from Georgetown,S. C, to Nova Scotia. Dr. Yarrow states that it abounds in the Tar andNeuse Rivers, N. C. In the Chesapeake and tributary streams it is ex-ceedingly abundant. It also abounds in the lakes and streams of the St. JohnRiver, New Brunswick, and in the vicinity of Halifax, Nova Sc
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