. The American angler's book: embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them. With instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making; and directions for fish-breeding. To which is appended, Dies piscatoriae: describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing. Illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. THE PERCH FAMILY. 103. BLACK BASS OF THE NOETHBEN LAKES. Orystes nigricans: Agassiz. The color of this fish (which appears to vary with locality, or the season) is generally dark olive-green on the back, shading gradually
. The American angler's book: embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them. With instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making; and directions for fish-breeding. To which is appended, Dies piscatoriae: describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing. Illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. THE PERCH FAMILY. 103. BLACK BASS OF THE NOETHBEN LAKES. Orystes nigricans: Agassiz. The color of this fish (which appears to vary with locality, or the season) is generally dark olive-green on the back, shading gradually into a brownish yellow on the sides; belly, opaque white. Body compressed, oval; back arched; belly less curved than the superior outline; breadth as two to seven. Lateral line concurrent with back. Head small, little less than one-fourth the length of the body; preopercle covered with small scales, scales larger on opercle. The eye is on a line between the snout and posterior angle of opercle, .one-third distant from the snout, and is about five-eighths of an inch in diameter; the irides are dark brown above, and pale yellow below. Nostrils small, double. Tongue toothless; both jaws with small brushlike teeth, small patches of the same on each side of the pharynx, as well as on the branchial arches. Branchial rays seven. The first dorsal fin has ten sharp spines, the anterior ray being short; the second dorsal is. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Norris, Thaddeus, 1811-1877. Philadelphia, E. H. Butler
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