The yellow bass (Morone interrupta), a coarser and more
brassy fish, replaces it farther south. It is seldom seen above
Cincinnati and St. Louis. The white perch (Morone amert-
cana) is a little fish of the Atlantic seaboard, entering the sea,
but running up all the rivers, remaining contentedly land-
locked in ponds. It is one of the most characteristic fishes
of the coast from Nova Scotia to Virginia. It is a good pan
fish, takes the hook vigorously, and in a modest way deserves
the good-will of the angler who cannot stray far into the moun-
tains. Very close to these American bass is the bass, bars, or
robalo, of southern Europe, Dicentrarchus labrax, a large olive-
colored fish, excellent as food, living in the sea about the mouths
of rivers.
