Fishes . \5*/<:j- Fig. 399—Shiner, Abramis chrysoleucus (Mitchill). Hackensack River, N. J. insignificant allies are set forth in the pages of Izaak of these receive more attention from anglers in Englandthan their relatives receive in America. All the AmericanCyprinidce are ranked as boys fish, and those who seek thetrout or black bass or even the perch or crappie will not noticethem. Thoreau speaks of the boy who treasures the yellow 3 88 Series Ostariophysi perch as a real fish: So many unquestionable fish he counts,then so many chubs which he counts, then throws away. Chubs o
Fishes . \5*/<:j- Fig. 399—Shiner, Abramis chrysoleucus (Mitchill). Hackensack River, N. J. insignificant allies are set forth in the pages of Izaak of these receive more attention from anglers in Englandthan their relatives receive in America. All the AmericanCyprinidce are ranked as boys fish, and those who seek thetrout or black bass or even the perch or crappie will not noticethem. Thoreau speaks of the boy who treasures the yellow 3 88 Series Ostariophysi perch as a real fish: So many unquestionable fish he counts,then so many chubs which he counts, then throws away. Chubs of the Pacific Slope.—In the Western waters are numer-ous genera, some of the species reaching a large size. The species. 1 Fig. 300—The Squawfish, Ph/rhochcilus qrnndix Agassiz. Cloudslev Ruttcr.) (Photograph by of squawfish (Ptychocheilns luciiis in the Colorado. Ptychocheilusgrandis in the Sacramento, and Ptychocheilus oregonensis in theColumbia) reach a length of 4 or 5 feet or even more. Thesefishes are long and slender, with large toothless mouths andthe aspect of a pike. Allied to these are the hard tails {Gila clegans and Gilarobtista) of the Colorado Basin, strange-looking fishes scarcelyeatable, with lean bodies, flat heads, and expanded tails. Thesplit-tail, Pogonichthys niacrolepidotus, is found in the Sacramento. In the chisel-mouth, Acrocheihis alntaceus, of the Columbiathe lips have a hard cutting edge. In Meda, very small fishes
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