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 . of arch; preopercle serrate near its angle. Colour, olivegreen, conspicuously tinged with brassy, and with much darkmottling; the young irregularly barred and blotched with black,and with very little brassy; the adult with a dark spot on eachscale, these forming interrupted black stripes; a black opercularspot; dark mottlings on the soft dorsal, caudal and anal; eyemore or less red. In the Roanoke River of Virgi
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 . of arch; preopercle serrate near its angle. Colour, olivegreen, conspicuously tinged with brassy, and with much darkmottling; the young irregularly barred and blotched with black,and with very little brassy; the adult with a dark spot on eachscale, these forming interrupted black stripes; a black opercularspot; dark mottlings on the soft dorsal, caudal and anal; eyemore or less red. In the Roanoke River of Virginia is found a rock bass closelyresembling the common rock bass. It seems to differ only inhaving the scales on the cheek minute and imbedded and whollyinvisible over most of the cheek, and in having the profile over 340 The Sacramento Perch the eyes more concave. No other differences have been noted,and the species are probably not distinct. The habits of the Roanoke rock bass do not differ fromthose of the common species. GENUS ARCHOPLITES GILL This genus contains a single species, the Sacramento perch,A. interruptiis, the only species of the family found on ourPacific It inhabits the Sacramento and the San Joaquin rivers, and theirtributary streams and lakes, and has been abundant throughoutits range. It is said, however, probably without reason, that it isbeing exterminated by the carp and catfish, which infest itsspawning grounds. This species reaches a length of i to 2 feet,and is regarded as an excellent food-fish. We know nothingas to its game qualities. Colour, blackish above, side silvery, with about 7 verticalblackish bars, irregular in form and position, and more or lessinterrupted; body sometimes almost wholly black, sometimesbrassy; a black opercular spot; fins nearly plain. 341 GENUS CHy^NOBRYTTUS GILL This genus has the general form and dentition of Amblo-plites, with the convex opercle, lo dorsal and 3 anal spines ofLepomis. The single species is the wa
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