. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . T^^*^^??^-? THE STRIPED MULLET. THE MULLETS. Still shall be heard the loons lone cryUpon the stream, and to their restLong troops of curlews seaward sunset to their sandy joyous from the sparkling tideWith silver sides shall Mullets leapThe eagle soar in wonted pride,And by their eyrie strong and wideOn the dry oak beside the deep,Their watch shall busy ospreys keep. William J. Grayson : T/ic River Coosa. {~\^ our eastern coast there
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . T^^*^^??^-? THE STRIPED MULLET. THE MULLETS. Still shall be heard the loons lone cryUpon the stream, and to their restLong troops of curlews seaward sunset to their sandy joyous from the sparkling tideWith silver sides shall Mullets leapThe eagle soar in wonted pride,And by their eyrie strong and wideOn the dry oak beside the deep,Their watch shall busy ospreys keep. William J. Grayson : T/ic River Coosa. {~\^ our eastern coast there are two species oi Mugil, the differences be-^^^tween which are sometimes, though not always recognized by most familiar is the Striped Mullet, Mugil alhula; the other isthe so-called White Mullet, Mugil brasiliensis. The former is thelarger, and has eight instead of nine rays in the anal fin, and forty-twoinstead of thirty-eight scales between the gill openings and the base of thecaudal fin. There has been so much confusion among writers regardingthe species of this family upon our coast that it has until very recentlybe
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