. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] : illustrated from nature. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. 224 8UBBRACHIAL MALACOPTEBYOIL AMERICAN FISHES. GADID^. THE AMERICAN WHITING. Mcrlangua Ameriranus. '1'his is, comparatively speaking, a rare and little-known fish, that which is commonly called Whiting, being in reality a Hake Merluciut It ranges only from Massachusetts northward. It is easily distinguished by its long, tapering, cylindrical body, and its high, triangular, wing-like dorsals. Its color is, above the la
. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] : illustrated from nature. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. 224 8UBBRACHIAL MALACOPTEBYOIL AMERICAN FISHES. GADID^. THE AMERICAN WHITING. Mcrlangua Ameriranus. '1'his is, comparatively speaking, a rare and little-known fish, that which is commonly called Whiting, being in reality a Hake Merluciut It ranges only from Massachusetts northward. It is easily distinguished by its long, tapering, cylindrical body, and its high, triangular, wing-like dorsals. Its color is, above the lateral line, a bright nacrous bluish gray, and below a silvery white, with fins nearly of the same color. The head of the Whiting is acutely prolonged; the eyes large and prominent; the gill-covers rounded ; the teeth sharp and small. The three dorsals have respectively thirteen, twenty and twenty ray.^ ; the pectorals nineteen, the ventrals six, the anals respectively twenty-four and twenty-one, and the caudal thirty-two. The Whiting is a delicate fish. It is taken in the same manner and in the same waters with the Cod and Haddock, and, like them, has little or no game habits. My chief reason for inserting him in this work is, that his existence in American waters has been doubted and denied. • Note to Krvirrd Edition.—I have just learned from Mr. King, of Charleiton, S. C, that this fish hae lately been found in tneir waters, iiuving, it is thought, e»- cupnd from an Eastern iiB}tiii(;-br>at, and hocoino 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 Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858. New York : W. A. Townsend
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