The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-09

even of them. The newcomers were
 astounded at the abundance of the fishes about their new home. To these numerous fishes they transferred
 names of English species with which they were more or less familiar. On
 account of the greater number of spe-
 cies common to the two countries, those who came from old England to
 New England were not very far as- tray, but as they or their successors wandered farther and farther they
 made many mistakes. A few exam ples will Illustrate.
 Among the most common Of the English fishes are the cod, perch, bass and trout. The immigrants to Massa-
 chusetts applied these names to fishes
 of the same genera as the originals, but mostly of different species. Perch
 has been used in this country as a
 name for every different sorts of fishes. In England the name is specifically ap- piled to so well known fresh water fish.
 The immigrants to New England found a fish almost undistinguishable from it., and gave it the same name. Others gave it to the fishes having no real
 resemblance. The so-called perch of the Atlantic coast is, in reality, bass.
 The silver perch, the gray perch, the white perch of the Ohio river, the red perch and the blue perch are all mis- I named.
 Bass is applied to many different species-a score or more. In England it is the proper name of a marine fish common only along the southern l coast. A related species, though of a | different genus, was found by the new settlers of Massachusetts and New York and quite properly called bass or ! striped bass. There are, by the way, | several other species in this country | entitled to the name, but which oddly enough have been given the names of ! other fish, as for instance, the white ! perch All others are quite remote [ from the true bass-even the so-called !, black passes.
 Trout is another of the English 1 names variously misapplied. In the ! old country it is given to a single spe-
 cies generally distributed through the , island in clear, cold streams. The Pil- | Sfll1lS IOullu HI SHIliIdE SlIcdlllS III hdS- sachusetts a fish somewhat like it, and called 1t by the same name, although
 if Izaak Walton had been among them
 he might have told them it was not a | trout but a char Others found in
 Maine handbook Salmon, and in various large lakes another good-sized sal-
 salmon, and applied to them also the
 name of trout. Settlers in troutless
 southern states, bound to give the
 name to some fish, give it to the kind | generally known as black bass. Along
 the southern coast, too, the name trout
 or sea trout, was given to entirely dif-
 ferent kinds of fishes. When the Amer jeans reached California coast they
 found certain fishes of a peculiar fam
 fly, not at all like trout in shape or
 fins, but spotted, and these they also
 called trout. Still another fish, found
 in the Gila river, a slender, large
 mouthed cyprinid, was called trout by
 explorers and still bears the name.
 But t1is is not all or the worst.
 These odd names are not only widely
 scattered; they accumulate. Cod and
 trout are given to the same fish along
 the Pacific coast. Another fish is call
 ed rock cod about Puget Sound and
 rock trout and sea trout at San Fran cisco" SET