. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. TB£ SEA DRnU. (Young.) SEA DRUM AND LAKE DRUM. His drumming heart cheers up his burning eye. Shakespeare, Rape of Lucrece. "^TEXT to the sword-fish, tunny, jew-fish, and halibut, the Drum is perhaps the largest of the food-fishes of our coast. It is most abun- dant in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Southern Atlantic States, though nearly every summer a few specimens appear on the south coast of New England. In one or two instances individua
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. TB£ SEA DRnU. (Young.) SEA DRUM AND LAKE DRUM. His drumming heart cheers up his burning eye. Shakespeare, Rape of Lucrece. "^TEXT to the sword-fish, tunny, jew-fish, and halibut, the Drum is perhaps the largest of the food-fishes of our coast. It is most abun- dant in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Southern Atlantic States, though nearly every summer a few specimens appear on the south coast of New England. In one or two instances individuals have been observed as far north as Provincetown, Mass. In the Gulf it is common everywhere, even to the southern boundary of Texas ; how much further south it goes there is at present no means of determining. Ichthyologists formerly sup- posed that there were two species, one of which, of small size and con- spicuously banded with brown and white, was called the " Banded Drum," P. fasciatus, or "Little ; This is now well-known to be the young of the F chro?nis. It seems curious that the changes of color in relation to age, although known to Cuvier forty years ago, should have been overlooked by American naturalists, and that the species P. fasciatus should have stood as valid until 1873. The name " Drum," as everyone knows, alludes to the loud drumming. 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 Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896; Gill, Theodore, 1837-1914. ed. Boston, L. C. Page
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