. 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. i, is â. Tin: si'AMsii MA(Ki;i;, THE SPANISH MACKI'REL AND THE CEROES. SiiDiicr --liall cats ilisport in water clear Ami s|R'i"klcil maikrcN i;ra/c the iiicailnws clear Tlian 1 fiT^ct my slieplicrds wonteil love. (j.\Y, J\ist(iya/.s, 1714, Next niorn they rose ami sot up every sai' 'J'lie wiiiil was fair, but hlew a inackrel k-iIc 'J7if J/;>!,/,,,!,//Iir 'TpI
. 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. i, is â. Tin: si'AMsii MA(Ki;i;, THE SPANISH MACKI'REL AND THE CEROES. SiiDiicr --liall cats ilisport in water clear Ami s|R'i"klcil maikrcN i;ra/c the iiicailnws clear Tlian 1 fiT^ct my slieplicrds wonteil love. (j.\Y, J\ist(iya/.s, 1714, Next niorn they rose ami sot up every sai' 'J'lie wiiiil was fair, but hlew a inackrel k-iIc 'J7if J/;>!,/,,,!,//Iir 'TpIiE Spanish Mackerel is surely one of the most graceful of fislics. It a]ii)eals as scarcely any otlier can to our love of heaiity, when we look upon it, as shown in Kilbourn's well-known ]>aintinLj;, (lartin,LC li'«-' an arrow just shot from the bow, its burnished sides, silver fleckeil with gold, thrown into bold relief by the cool green background of the ripple 1 sea ; the transi>arent greys, opalescent whites and glossy blacks of its trembling I'ms, enhance the metallic s])lendor of its body, until it t > rival the most brilliant of tropical birds. Kilbourn made copies of liis large jiainting on the jjcarly linings of sea-shells, and ])rodu( ed some wonderful effects by allowing the natural lustre of the mother-of-jieari, to show through his transparent jiignients and simulate tlie brilliancy of tlie Jife-insjiired hues of (piivering, darting sea-sprite, wliose charms ewn ids jtotent brush could not properly depict. It is a lover of the sun, a fish of tropical nature, which comes to us only in midsummer, and which disap])ears with the ajiproach of cold, to some region not yet explored by ichthyologists. It is doubtless very familiar in winter to the inhabitants of some region adjacent to the waters of the Caribbean or the tropical Atlantic, but until this place shall have been discovered it is more satisfactory to sujipose that with the bhu.'fish.
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