. 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. THE CAVALLY AND OTHER CARANGOIDS. 235 rapid swimmers, and are widely distributed throughout all temperate and tropical waters. The name Dolphin is unfortunately applied, this being. THE DOLPHIN. the peculiar property of a group of small cetaceans. They are often caught by sailors at sea, and are considered most excellent food. It is an almost universal custom before eating them to test the flesh by putting a piece of silver int
. 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. THE CAVALLY AND OTHER CARANGOIDS. 235 rapid swimmers, and are widely distributed throughout all temperate and tropical waters. The name Dolphin is unfortunately applied, this being. THE DOLPHIN. the peculiar property of a group of small cetaceans. They are often caught by sailors at sea, and are considered most excellent food. It is an almost universal custom before eating them to test the flesh by putting a piece of silver into the vessel in which they have been cooked, it being a common belief that if the flesh is poisonous the silver will turn dark. Narratives of ocean voyages abound in descriptions of the beautiful colors of the Dolphin and the brilliant changes of hue exhibited by the dying fish, but none so eloquent as that in Montgomery's "Pelican ; •' A shoal of dolphins, tumbling in wild glee, Glowed with such orient tints, they might have been The rainbow's offspring, where it met the ; There are in the Atlantic two species of Dolphins, though the num- ber was, until lately, supposed to be very much greater. But one of these, Coryphcena hippurus, is definitely known from our shores. The young, less than two feet in length, are beautifully marked with numerous small circular spots, and have, until lately, been considered by many writers to belong to a distinct genus and species. Dolphins are abundant also, it is said, in the Gulf of Mexico. The Pilot-fish, Naucratcs ductor, though of little or no economic im- portance, deserves passing mention, since it is so frequently referred to in literature. It is occasionally taken on our coast. Capt. Atwood mentions a specimen which was taken in a mackerel net in Provincetown Harbor, in October, 185S. A whale-ship had come in a few days before, and he supposes that the Pilot-fish had followed it into the Please n
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