The food and game fishes of New York: . Scup. 424 SEVENTH RKrOKT OI THE EUREST, EISIl AM) GAME COMMISSION. 121. Weak Fish ; Squeteague (Cynoscion rcgalis Bloch & Schneider.) Roans comes ., Kept. Fish. N. V., 26, 1814, Xew York. Labriis squeteague Mitchill, Trans, Lit. \- ihil. Soc X. Y., I, 396, \A. 2, fig. 6, 1815, New rcgalis DkKav, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 71, ])1. 8, fig. 24, regale \x, ISull. U. S. F. C, YII, 140. pi. II, fig. 6, 1888; 19th Rept. Coram. Fish. N. Y., 257, pi. XIII, fig. 15, 1890. ^ Cynoscion rcgalis , Bull. .\m. Mus. Nat. Hist., I
The food and game fishes of New York: . Scup. 424 SEVENTH RKrOKT OI THE EUREST, EISIl AM) GAME COMMISSION. 121. Weak Fish ; Squeteague (Cynoscion rcgalis Bloch & Schneider.) Roans comes ., Kept. Fish. N. V., 26, 1814, Xew York. Labriis squeteague Mitchill, Trans, Lit. \- ihil. Soc X. Y., I, 396, \A. 2, fig. 6, 1815, New rcgalis DkKav, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 71, ])1. 8, fig. 24, regale \x, ISull. U. S. F. C, YII, 140. pi. II, fig. 6, 1888; 19th Rept. Coram. Fish. N. Y., 257, pi. XIII, fig. 15, 1890. ^ Cynoscion rcgalis , Bull. .\m. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, 367, 1897; Jordan & Ever- MANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1407, 1898, pi. CCXX, fig. 562, 1900; H. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, loi, 1898 ; 5211 .n. Rept. N. Y. State Mus., 106, 1900 ; & Edwards, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1901, 29, 1901. Silvery, darker above and marked with many small, irregular dark blotches, someof which form undulating lines running downward and forward ; back and head with /^/? WEAK FISH. bright reflections; dorsal and caudal fins dusky: ventrals, anal, and lower edge ofcaudal yellowish, sometimes speckled. The young show traces of a few duskybands on the sides, one under the spinous dorsal being most plainly marked, andextending to below the median line. The \Yeak fish, so called in Dr. Mitchills Fislics of Xciv York, appears also in hisreport as the .Squeteague and Chccouts, the former being a Narragansett Indianname and the latter derived from the Mohegans. The Narragansett name is some-times spelled Scuteeg. Chickwick is the Connecticut name for the species: on CapeCod, because of the souiul produced by the fish, it is called the Drummer; largeWeak fish in Buzzards Hay are termed Yellow fins. In Great Egg Harbor Bay thename Blue fish is applied to it, notwithstanding the presence of the real Blue fish{Poiiiatoiiuis). On our southern coast we hear the name Trout, with its variations,Grey Trout, Sea Trout, Shad Trout, Sun Trout and S
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