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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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are Os-wego Bass, Lake Bass, Bayou Bass,Green, and Yellow Bass, Moss Bass,and in a few localities of the Southit is called Welchman. The Small-mouthBlack Bass is also favored with a largenumber of names, many of which arepurely local and need not be mentioned.A few of the more common ones are:Lake Bass, Ninny Bass, Hog Bass,Brown Bass or Trout, Black or TroutPerch and Mountain Trout. Variationin characteristics and habits due to age,geographical location and different cli-matic influences have led scientists torecognize and name quite a large num-ber of species of Black Basses, but theinvestigators of more recent years havediscarded all but the two specific names,already mentioned, and included all theBlack Basses under either the Large-mouth or the Small-mouth species. The range of the Large-mouth BlackBass may be considered as covering thelarger part of the eastern United Statesand southern British America, westwardto the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas. 18* > piW O d wa w> >
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That of the Small-mouth Bass, thoughlarge, is less extensive, covering a terri-tory from Lake Champlain to Mani-toba, and southward on both sides ofthe Alleghanies to South Carolina andArkansas. These are the natural rangesof the two species. They are able, how-ever, to adapt themselves to great ex-tremes of temperature and to adverseconditions. For these reasons, theirranges of distribution have been greatlyextended by introduction by humanmethods into nearly every portion of theUnited States where they were formerlynot a part of the fish fauna. They havealso been successfully introduced intofresh waters of Europe. It is said thatafter the introduction of Black Bassesinto the waters of Utah, that in threeyears they became so numerous thatthirty thousand pounds were caught andmarketed from one lake. Climate and food have much to dowith the rate of growth of the BlackBass. Size is not a criterion of its age.At the age of five or six months theyoung Bass measure from four to eightinches

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