. American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America north of the Equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . Fishes; Fishes; Fishes. THE SERGEANT-FISHES • Family XL. RacJiyccntrida; The characters of this family are sufficiently shown in the ac- companying illustration of the sergeant-fish, Rachycentroii This fish is an inhabitant of warm seas, ranging in summer as far north on our Atlantic Coast as Cape Cod. It is not un- common from the Chesapeake Bay southward, it is known as sergeant-fish, crab-eater, co


. American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America north of the Equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . Fishes; Fishes; Fishes. THE SERGEANT-FISHES • Family XL. RacJiyccntrida; The characters of this family are sufficiently shown in the ac- companying illustration of the sergeant-fish, Rachycentroii This fish is an inhabitant of warm seas, ranging in summer as far north on our Atlantic Coast as Cape Cod. It is not un- common from the Chesapeake Bay southward, it is known as sergeant-fish, crab-eater, coal-fish and cobia, and it reaches a length of 4 or 5 feet, and it is edible. ,^^3. 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 Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931; Evermann, Barton Warren, joint author. Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page


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