Alfred Jardine
Published: 2017-12-21
Total Pages: 218
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Excerpt from Pike and Perch: With Notes on Record Pike and a Chapter on the Black Bass, Murray Cod and Other Sporting Members of the Perch Family The tail is large and rather forked the pectoral and ventral fins are small; there are mucous orifices in pairs on the head; also some in single rows in the lower jaw-bones; the cheeks and upper parts of gill-covers have scales on them. Pike are silvery white on the belly, but their other colourings vary according to location and season of the year. In spring and summer, while aquatic vegetation is green, they are mottled with white, yellow, and green; in autumn and winter, olive brown mottled with green, thus assimilating to the surrounding conditions of decaying weeds and sedges - the head and back are dark olive brown tail, dorsal, and anal fin dark brown, mixed with red and dark green on the fin-rays; the pectoral and ventral fins are pale brown, and the gills a vivid red. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.