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Identifier: americanangler251895harr (find matches)
Title: The American angler
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Harris, William Charles, 1830-1905, ed
Subjects: Fishing
Publisher: New York : (The Angler's Publishing Company)
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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eal and situated behind the with dusky markings along the dorsal gills and at the beginning of the throat) line, merging into silvery on the sides are curved like a scythe and have many and belly, and the male is said to have, comb-like teeth in one row, and the air in the spring, a rosy stripe along the bladder is larere and divided into two lateral line. Dr. Bean tells us that the fc> or three parts. They have no adipose young of this species are brownish in dorsal fin, which readily distinguishes color and somewhat mottled, with a them from some of the whitefishes, dark median band, or a series of large particularly the Rocky Mountain white- blotches. This fish has a number of fish, which many anglers, thoughtlessly, local names, such as the pale sucker, believe to be a sucker. gray sucker, brook sucker, and, in There are, so far as is knowm, about Canada, it is known as the Carpe eleven genera and about sixty species blaiiclic. It has also a curious name,. H 3- n Oo o 3 CO co O
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The American Angler the origin of which I vainly tried to abs-tain, in Rockland Co., N. Y., where it iscalled the cannuper. The localnames given to fishes vary in nearlyevery township in the States, and thiscustom extends to the names of naturalbaits of precisely the same characterused on different streams, but in adja-cent localities. Readers of the Amer-ican y\NGLER will remember my re-searches into the popular nomenclatureof the helgramiteor dobson—Corydaliseorniiliis—and that 1 unearthed, withoutexhausting them, forty-seven differentlocal names for this great lure for theblack bass. A catalogue of the com-mon names of American fishes wouldbe a massive but valuable volume. The stone roller—Catostonuis nigri-cans—may be easily known by its head,which is flattened on top and concavebetween the eyes. It has eleven raysin the dorsal fin and its upper lip isthick, with eight or ten rows of papill.eon it. This fish has many commonnames, among which arc hog sucker,stone toter, ham

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