PERCH

a title which embraces a large family of fresh-water fishes found im all parts of the world. The chief American representative.is the Yellow, or ‘Barred’? or ‘Ring’? Perch (see color-page opposite 538+) abounding in many of the fresh waters, especially the Jakes, of the northern states east of the Mi ouri River, Good average specimens weigh up to two pounds and reach a length of fourteen inches large fish considerably exceeding those figures. Its color varies, but typically its back is Wid gee greenish-brown, its. & ’ ee -. sides yellow with dark am bars, and its underparts white. Another important — - = genus in eludes the pike- — LL. i Sea perches. The best of Nee « sy these is the big Wall- YS eyed Pike, plentiful in Wall-eyed pike | the Great Lakes, where it averages nearly ten pounds in weight and has been known to reach twenty-five. Elsewhere its weight is le . The smaller ‘‘blue pike’’ is merely a young wall-eyed pike.