. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . ??-^y»«. A. ? •il.,l,lil--Jfe^—^ ^^^ THE KING-FISH. MENTICIRRUS NEBULOSUS. THE KING AND OUEEN FISHES. These be the hills, (quoth he) the surges hie,On which faire Cynthia her heards doth feed ;Her heards be thousand fishes with their frie,Which in the bosome of the billowes them the shepheard, which hath charge in Triton, blowing loud his wreathed hornAt sound whereof, they all, for their too and fro at evening and at mor
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . ??-^y»«. A. ? •il.,l,lil--Jfe^—^ ^^^ THE KING-FISH. MENTICIRRUS NEBULOSUS. THE KING AND OUEEN FISHES. These be the hills, (quoth he) the surges hie,On which faire Cynthia her heards doth feed ;Her heards be thousand fishes with their frie,Which in the bosome of the billowes them the shepheard, which hath charge in Triton, blowing loud his wreathed hornAt sound whereof, they all, for their too and fro at evening and at morne. Spenser. Co/iu Ciouis Co/iw Hc»iie Agat7i. 1591. I HE King-fish, Menticirrus nebulosus, also known as the Hakeon the coast of New Jersey and Delaware, and as the Tom-cod onthe coast of Connecticut, the Barb about Barnegat, the Black Mulletin the Chesapeake, the Sea Mink in North Carolina, and sometimesalso in the South as the Whiting, ranges from Cape Ann south at leastas far as the mouth of the St. Johns River, Fla., although in the southernpart of its range it is frequently confused with the AVhiting. It has beenobtaine
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