. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . y likened to the great northern pike, witha similar head, flattened on the forehead. He is dark green on the back,growing lighter on the sides, but the distinguishing characteristic is abroad, dark collar over the neck, from which two black stripes or stra])s,parting on the shoulders, extend, one on each side, to the tail. He looksas if harnessed Avith a pair of traces, and his behavior on a fly-rod is thatof a wild horse. The first one that I struck,
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . y likened to the great northern pike, witha similar head, flattened on the forehead. He is dark green on the back,growing lighter on the sides, but the distinguishing characteristic is abroad, dark collar over the neck, from which two black stripes or stra])s,parting on the shoulders, extend, one on each side, to the tail. He looksas if harnessed Avith a pair of traces, and his behavior on a fly-rod is thatof a wild horse. The first one that I struck, in the brackish water ofHillsborough River at Tampa, gave me a hitherto unknown tremendous rush was not unfamiliar, but when the fierce fellow tookthe top of the water and went along lashing it with his tail, swift as abullet, then descended, and with a short, sharp, electric shock left theline to come home free, I was for an instant confounded. It Avas all overin ten seconds. Nearly every fish that 1 struck after this behaved in the 146 AMERICAN FISHES. same way, and after I had gotten the hang of them I took a great THE MOON-FISH OU SPADE-FISH. The Moon-fish, Oicetodiptcrus fabcr, is one of the rarer species on ourcoast, and has recently come so much into favor in New York that amongconnoisseurs it is one of the most highly esteemed food-fishes. It is alsogreatly valued by residents of Washington who know it, being abundantin the markets of that city in summer. In the northern parts of the Gulf ofMexico it is called the Spade-fish; from Florida to Charleston theAngel-fish, a name which, according to Schoepf, appears to have beencurrent during the last century at Beaufort, N. C, where it is called the Porgee or ^ Porgy, and at New York, where it is stated to be foundin summer. Three-tail Sheepshead and Three-tailed Porgee arenames which are said to have been formerly in use among the New Yorkfishermen. COBIA, MO OX-FISH AXD FLASHER. 147 The range of this
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