. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . ^iji^. THE AMBER-FISH. weight. It is also, according to Jordan, rather common on the Carolinacoast, where it is known as the Jack-fish. The Rock Salmon of Pensacola, Scriola falcata, is recorded byStearns as occasionally occurring near Pensacola in comj^jany with thepreceeding species, which it resembles in habits. It is caught with hookand line and is eaten ; in his opinion, it attains a larger size than theAmber-fish. There is a third species of Amb
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . ^iji^. THE AMBER-FISH. weight. It is also, according to Jordan, rather common on the Carolinacoast, where it is known as the Jack-fish. The Rock Salmon of Pensacola, Scriola falcata, is recorded byStearns as occasionally occurring near Pensacola in comj^jany with thepreceeding species, which it resembles in habits. It is caught with hookand line and is eaten ; in his opinion, it attains a larger size than theAmber-fish. There is a third species of Amber-fish of which the NationalMuseum has received a single specimen from South Florida. It is closelyrelated to the fish described by Cuvier under the name Scriola same species is some sent to the New Orleans market, where an ex-ample was seen by Prof. Jordan. Another closelv allied species, Seriola dorsalis, occurs on the coast ofCalifornia, where, according to Jordan, it is known under the namesYellow-tail, White Salmon, and Cavasina. Of the Yellow-tail, Prof. Jordan says : It reaches a length of fourto five feet, and a weight of
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