. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. CARP, DACE AND MINNOW. 435 inhabits all bodies of water, large and small, from New England to Colo- rado. In the great lakes it reaches a length of two feet or more. In small brooks it is mature at eight or ten inches. It varies much in size, color and form in the different streams. It bites freely, and is one of the fishes with which the unambitious brook angler is well contented. When taken out of clear water, properly cared for and well wash
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. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. CARP, DACE AND MINNOW. 435 inhabits all bodies of water, large and small, from New England to Colo- rado. In the great lakes it reaches a length of two feet or more. In small brooks it is mature at eight or ten inches. It varies much in size, color and form in the different streams. It bites freely, and is one of the fishes with which the unambitious brook angler is well contented. When taken out of clear water, properly cared for and well washed, it is an excellent pan-fish, like most of its kind.. THE BROOK SHOKER—CATOSTOMUS OO.MMEESONI. All the lakes and rivers of the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific slope, says Jordan, are inhabited by species of this genus, or of the allied genera Chasmistes and Pantosteus. In Utah Lake, said to be the " greatest Sucker-pond in the world, " are found Caiostomus fecundus and ardens, Chasmistes liorus and Pantosteusplatyrhynchus, all in abundance. In Lake Tahoe Catostomus tahoensis; in the Sacramento C. occidentalis; in the Columbia C. macrochilus; in Klamath Lake Chasmistes luxatus and Ch. brevirostris, abound, while in the great lakes and all waters thence to Alaska and Arctic Ocean C. longirostris is an important food-fish. The "Stone-roller, " "Hog Sucker, " "Stone Toter " or "Hammer- head Sucker, '' Catostomus nigricans, abounds in most waters from the great lakes southward. The Stone-roller is extremely abundant in every run- ning stream in the North and West, where its singular, almost comical form is familiar to every school-boy. It delights in rapids and shoals, preferring cold and clear water. Its powerful pectorals render it a swifter swimmer than any other of its family. Its habit is to rest motionless on the bot- tom, where its mottled colors render it difficult to distinguish from the stones among which it lies. When disturbe