Appendix to the History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, 1853 - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...Superior, p. 284, and Plate I., fig. 1 and 2. Description.--General color, light brownish yellow, with longitudinal rows of brown spots, about one-tenth of an inch in diameter, usually one row along the dorsal line, and two rows on each side between this and the lateral line. A broad satin stripe embraces the lateral line. Belly white. Fins and flesh translucent-the vertebral column, the contents of the abdomen, and portions of the head, only appearing opaque, when held towards the light. Fins all large, in proportion to the size of the fish. The rays of the pectorals reach backward half of their length beyond the ventrals, which are attached near the middle of the abdomen, and under a point a little anterior to the first dorsal, and reach backward to the vent. The anal fin has its first ray short and spinous. Caudal fin forked. Nostrils and eyes large; irides yellow. A depression on the head, between the orbits, divided longitudinally by a long ridge. Scales rather large and rough, having finely serrated edges. Length, from 3 to 5 inches. The following are the measurements of one out of three living specimens before me, when the above description was made: Total length, 3.'J inches: to the pectoral fin, 1; to ventral, 1.45; first dorsal, 1.5; anal, 2.1; adipose, 2.0; central base of caudal, 3.2. Fin rays, B. 8, D. 210--0, P. 13, V. 8,A.17, C.18j. History.--The first knowledge I had of this fish was in the summer of 1841, when I found a specimen of it, 5 inches long, which was dead, and had been drifted up by the waves on the lake shore, in Burlington. On examining it, I found it to possess the adipose and abdominal fins of the trouts, TROUT-PERCH. HERRING SALMON. but, in its teeth, gill covers and particularly in its hard serrated scales, to bear considera...