. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. THE IIONITO. BOXITOi:S AND TUNNIES. Next witli llic pMiiy f ><;, (lie Timiiies luiip, I'loiiticu nil the striaiii, iuul toss the niaiitliiij; deep, Ride o'or the foamy seas, witli torture rave, Dotiiid into air, and dash the smoking wave. ;insl,iti\i I'v J,>)U-s, ' I "TIE Donito, Sart/ii mcditcrranca, is one of those fislieswliii h appe;)' to live cliiefiy in the open ocean, wanderin
. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. THE IIONITO. BOXITOi:S AND TUNNIES. Next witli llic pMiiy f ><;, (lie Timiiies luiip, I'loiiticu nil the striaiii, iuul toss the niaiitliiij; deep, Ride o'or the foamy seas, witli torture rave, Dotiiid into air, and dash the smoking wave. ;insl,iti\i I'v J,>)U-s, ' I "TIE Donito, Sart/ii mcditcrranca, is one of those fislieswliii h appe;)' to live cliiefiy in the open ocean, wandering; hitlier and thithei in large schools, preying upon other pelagic fishes, and ajiproaching land only when attracted by abundance of accejitable food. Several of the smaller species of the group of Tunnies, to which it belongs, are known to sailors by the same name. The common "lionito" of luigland. Orcynus pi'lamys, two or three specimens of which have been detected in our waters since 1876, is what is here called the "Striped Bonito," but the fish which most frecjuently and in greatest numbers approaches our shores is the one which is named at the head of this section. Almost nothing is known of its habits, and it is even impossible to define its geographical range with any degree of certainty, its distribution being very unlike that of any other fish with which we are acquainted. It maybe said, howe\c. that it is found only in the Atlantic basin. On our coast it occurs in summer between Cape May and Cape Sable, though rarely north of Cape Ann ; occasionally off Cape Hatteras and the mouth of the Chesapeake and in the Gulf of Mexico. Specimens have been taken about the Can- aries and Madeira, at the Cape of Good Hope and in the Mediterranean. It has not been observed on the coast of Europe north of Ciibraltar, no' at the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability -
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