Abbott, Charles C[onrad], 1843-1919. [from Old Catalog]
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Common snnfish. Mud sunfish. River sunfish. Gizzard shad. Red-fin. MuUet. Eel. Cat-fish. Tjamprey. Sturgeon. Table II. FoieeUss. Pirate. Yellow perch. Mud sunfish. Common sunfish. Gizzard shad. River sunfish. Mullet. Banded sunfish. Lamprey. Chub. Oat-fish, Roach. Eel. Red-fin. Sturgeon. Pike. BU!-fish. "We have here enumerated four species that are brill- iantly colored, and eight that are dull or simply silvery ; and of the former, none are believed to have any voice Digitized byGoogk 436 RAM...BLES ABOUT HOME. proper, while of the eight of the right hand, all are be- lieved to be BO endowed. In the right-hand column of Table II, it will be noticed that among the " voiceless " species are included the four highly-colored fishes and five others, aU of silvery tints, which I have carefully studied, and which have no habit, so far as I could dis- cover, that would separate them from the species that are without a voice. We can then scarcely avoid the conclu- sion, that with fishes as with birds the brilliantly-colored males, as a rule, are mostly if not wholly dependent on their hues to attract the females during the amatory sea- son.
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