. 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. .' ./.\7) Rrn-^lOfTllS. 8i clnsdy ^r^niis is tho '• Iln--|M,/' „r '• (; ..f ilu- Chc'^.iirakc. and calk'.l also " l'i--risli " („• •' (inmt •• i,, the Culf of " lish" and '• Whitin-" ;u K^y WVm, and in South Carolina and tlic St. Joim's RivcT, II,., as well as in under the nanu- of "'s ("ii
. 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. .' ./.\7) Rrn-^lOfTllS. 8i clnsdy ^r^niis is tho '• Iln--|M,/' „r '• (; ..f ilu- Chc'^.iirakc. and calk'.l also " l'i--risli " („• •' (inmt •• i,, the Culf of " lish" and '• Whitin-" ;u K^y WVm, and in South Carolina and tlic St. Joim's RivcT, II,., as well as in under the nanu- of "'s ("iioi(v. Its ,oh,rs arc as follows: pak- : hclly. silvery; sides with numerous uran-e-((,l.,ri'd or vellow spots; thosL' a!)ove the Literal line dis|.,,M(l in irre-ular oMi,pie'lines, those it in horizontal rows. Dorsal, an<l caudal tins with similar spots; sides,,f the head pale Muishwith a livery tint and marked with yellow spots ; lower jaw, at the an-le of the mouth ; internal surface of the gill niemhranc bri-ht ;. Tin: llni;.risil. Th IS species was first descrihed hv .Mitrhill fioi the bav of New \'ork. The \, ilional M n a spec imen in various ]iarts of the Southern coast and the (iulf of M useum has many spec iniens froii exico. ^'; wrote l^eKav in i,S. In N ew ])earin,i as r this is a rare fish, but occa:- ionall\- ap am informed, in our harbor in (onsiderable numbers. I a very s;i\()ry ; I'r,,!'. I'.aird did not find it t 1^ jersey in It occurs in on the coast of X ew ])eake ISay, and is niU( h esteemed f u' focjd, 1 lar i>an-fish of the Lower Chesapeak the salt water of tile lower |)art of the Cdi esa- leiin ]ierhaps the most po] ui- At Ueaufort, X. C, where it is also called •• liog-lish. Jordan, it is extremely coi wrote about 1S60 : "Tlie nmon e\er\where in the harbo according to Ilolbrook ailor s C'h oice makes it- appearance i;i our
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