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Identifier: annualreport891901021newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
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ke Erie and theOhio and is seined in large numbers. DeKay observed the fish in the AlleghanyRiver, N. Y. He recorded it also from Buffalo and Barcelona, on Lake Erie, atwhich places it is known as moon-eye, shiner and lake herring. He says it is veryindifferent food. This species grows to a length of one foot and, like the other, though abeautiful fish and possessed of excellent game qualities, its flesh is full of smallbones. It is a good fish for the aquarium; it will take a minnow or the artificialfly very readily, and the utmost skill is required in its capture. Its food consistsof insects, small fishes and crustaceans. Dr. Richardson describes this fish as a member of the minnow family, which,he says, is known to the Canadians under the name La Quesche. The fish isdescribed as having the back brilliant green, sides and abdomen with a silveryluster. The specimens which were taken in the Richelieu, where it falls into theSt. Lawrence, were about nine or ten inches long. h> ,, ;y
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o OO LUZ oo Rpct) ^ass; Red E^e 3l8 REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. RpCr^ J>ass; I(ed-I^e (Ambloplites rupestris Rafinesque). Centrarchus aenens DeKay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 27, pi. 2, fig. 4, 1842, Lake Champlain; Great Lakes; streams of Western New York; Hudson River.Ambloplites rupestris Bean, Fishes Penna., 105, color pi. 10, 1893; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 990, 1896, pi. CLVI, figs. 419, A, B, C; Meek, Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci., IV, 313, 1898; Eugene Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y. for 1897, 33, 1898; Mearns, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., X, 319, 1898; Bean, 52c! Ann. Rept. N. Y. State Mus., 104, 1900. Color olive green with a brassy tinge and much dark mottling; the young arepale or yellowish, irregularly barred and blotched with black; adults with a darkspot at the base of each scale, the spots forming interrupted black stripes; adark spot on the opercle; soft dorsal, anal and caudal fins with dark mottlings;iris golden overlaid with crimson. The

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