. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. iS6 AMERICAN FISHES. stant and he who chooses to do so may soon learn to discriminate between the Spanish Mackerel and its allies. The Spotted Cero, or King Cero, Scombcromorus regalis, has seventeen dorsal spines, and upon the front of the first dorsal, which is white, is a spot of deep blue, which is prolonged far back upon the upper edge of the \\w. The sides are marked with broken longitudinal bands of gold, inter- lined wi
. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. iS6 AMERICAN FISHES. stant and he who chooses to do so may soon learn to discriminate between the Spanish Mackerel and its allies. The Spotted Cero, or King Cero, Scombcromorus regalis, has seventeen dorsal spines, and upon the front of the first dorsal, which is white, is a spot of deep blue, which is prolonged far back upon the upper edge of the \\w. The sides are marked with broken longitudinal bands of gold, inter- lined with brown and golden spots. It differs from S. maculatus, which also has seventeen dorsal spines, in the form of its teeth and in its coloration. In the Spanish Mackerel the teeth are somewhat conical and very pointed, the first dorsal has a black blotch, and the spots upon the sides are golden brown nearly circular and not arranged in band like THE SPOTTED CERO. The King Cero is a magnificent fish which grows to be five or six feet in length and attains a weight of twenty to thirty pounds. It is abundant in the West Indies, and has been recorded from Cuba, Santo Domingo, Ja- maica, Barbadoes, Key West, and Brazil. The Silver Cero, Scombcromo- rus caballa, has fourteen spines in its full dorsal fins, which is immaculate in color: The young fish have the sides of the body marked with indis- tinct spots, circular in form, and tawny in color, which disappear with age ; the lateral line is very sinuous upon the posterior portion of the body. It is a West Indian species, which has already been observed at Santo Domingo, Jamaica, Cuba, Martinique, Porto Rico, and Brazil, and a few specimens have been captured as far north as Wood's Holl, Mass. Prof. Jordan states that they are caught with trolling hooks on nearly every summer trip of the steamer from Savannah to New York. This is a mag- nificent fish, which often attains the weight of twenty-five pounds. Its habits are doubtl
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