. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE BED SNAPPER. SNAPPERS AND RED-MOUTHS. The island's edges are a-wing With trees that overbranch The sea, with song-birds welcoming The curlews to green change. And doves from half-closed lids espy The red and purple fish go by. Mrs. Browning, An Island. 'TpHE Snappers and the Grunts belong to Gill's family, Pristipomatidtz. Jordan puts them with the Sparidce, or Sea-Breams, while Giinther in- cludes them in his much more comprehensive perch
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE BED SNAPPER. SNAPPERS AND RED-MOUTHS. The island's edges are a-wing With trees that overbranch The sea, with song-birds welcoming The curlews to green change. And doves from half-closed lids espy The red and purple fish go by. Mrs. Browning, An Island. 'TpHE Snappers and the Grunts belong to Gill's family, Pristipomatidtz. Jordan puts them with the Sparidce, or Sea-Breams, while Giinther in- cludes them in his much more comprehensive perch family. They are among the most wholesome and abundant of the food-fishes of tropical waters. There are numerous species in the West Indian fauna, but only a small number are sufficiently abundant on the 'coast of the United States to merit discussion in this book. ' The Snappers and Grunts are among the most highly colored of the tropical fishes—the tanagers and grosbeaks of the coral reefs. The Red Snapper, Lutjanus Blackfordii, although it has been for many years a favorite food-fish of the Gulf of Mexico and Eastern Florida, has but recently become known in Northe;-n markets. About 1874 individuals of this species were occasionally seen in New York and Washington, and they began shortly after to come into notice in the cities of the Mississippi Valley. It was not even described and named until 1878, when a study. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896; Gill, Theodore, 1837-1914. ed. Boston, L. C. Page
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