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Title: Aquatic life
Identifier: aquaticlife419181919baus (find matches)
Year: 1918-1919 (1910s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph E
Subjects: Aquariums; Fish culture
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. E. Bausman
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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n"he Nesting Habits of Certain Sunfiskes as Observed in a Park Lagoon in Chicago CARL L. HUBBS, Field Museum and Chicago Aquarium Society
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View of the Lagoon in Jackson Park, Chicago, were the observations were made Just back of the present building of the Field Museum of Natural History, in Jackson Park, Chicago, there lies one basin of a series of pretty lagoons, which are connected with one another and with Lake Michigan by means of narrow chan- nels. These lagoons are well supplied with fish life. The writer has records of more than forty species, of which those belonging to the sunfish family (Centrar- chidae) are in many ways the most inter- esting to him, as well as to the numerous small boys who delight in dodging the park police to catch these little fishes from the shore. As this locality is so readily accessible to the writer, he was able during the spring of this year to make daily observations here on the nest- ing habits of the sunfishes. Although many, and perhaps all, of the facts de- termined have already been recorded or are generally well-known, nevertheless these notes may be of interest to the readers of Aquatic Life. The species which was first observed nesting is one which is not popularly as- sociated with the sunfishes, though be- longing to the same family and having similar habits, namely the large-mouthed black bass (Micropterus salmoides). The nests of this species, found only during the latter half of May and the first half of June, were all circles of exposed stony or gravelly bottom, surrounded by the finer bottom material—first a ring of sand and then one of silt—thrown out-

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