. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. v\ 224 subbrachial ma:-acopterygti. AMERICAN FISHES. O A DIP THE AMERICAN WHITING. Merlangus Americanus. This is, comparatively speaking, a rare and little-ltnown fish, that which is commonly called Whitings being in reality a Hake Merlucius It ranges only from Massachusetts northward. It is easily distinguished by its long, tapering, cylindrical body, and its high, triangular, wing-like dorsals. Its color is, above the lateral line, a bri
. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. v\ 224 subbrachial ma:-acopterygti. AMERICAN FISHES. O A DIP THE AMERICAN WHITING. Merlangus Americanus. This is, comparatively speaking, a rare and little-ltnown fish, that which is commonly called Whitings being in reality a Hake Merlucius It ranges only from Massachusetts northward. It is easily distinguished by its long, tapering, cylindrical body, and its high, triangular, wing-like dorsals. Its color is, above the lateral line, a bright nacrous bluish gray, and below a silvery white, with fins nearly of the same color. The head of the Whiting is acutely prolonged ; the eyes large and prominent; the gill-covers rounded ; the teeth sharp and small. The three dorsals have respectively thirteen, twenty and twenty rays ; the pectorals nineteen, the ventrals six, the anals respectively twenty-four and twenty-one, and the caudal thirty-two. The Whiting is a delicate fish. It is taken in the same manner and in the same waters with the Cod and Haddock, .and, like them, has little or no game habits. • chief reason for inserting him in this work is, that his existence i .merican waters has been doubted and denied. • Note to Kevised Euition.—I li ve just learnod from Mr. King, of Charlesfon, S. C, that this fish has lately been , mnd in tneir waters, huvingf, it is thought, es- capfid from an Eastern fisliin^c-hoat iind bocmno 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 Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858. New York : Stringer & Townsend
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