. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. ^ "^^. V THE CATALLY. THE CAVALLY AND OTHER CARANGOIDS. Swift speed crevalle over that watery plain, Swift over Indian River's broad expanse. Swift where the ripples boil with finny hosts. Bright glittering they glance ; And when the angler's spoon is over them cast. How fierce, how vigorous the fight for life ! Now in the deeps thej' plunge, now leap in air Till end's the unequal strife. Isaac McLellan. 'T^HE members of the family Carangi
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. ^ "^^. V THE CATALLY. THE CAVALLY AND OTHER CARANGOIDS. Swift speed crevalle over that watery plain, Swift over Indian River's broad expanse. Swift where the ripples boil with finny hosts. Bright glittering they glance ; And when the angler's spoon is over them cast. How fierce, how vigorous the fight for life ! Now in the deeps thej' plunge, now leap in air Till end's the unequal strife. Isaac McLellan. 'T^HE members of the family Carangidce, which is closely allied to the mackerel family, are distinguished chiefly by the form of the mouth, and by the fact that they have uniformly but twenty-four vertebrae, ten abdominal and fourteen caudal, while the mackerel have uniformly more, both abdominal and caudal. They are carnivorous fishes, abounding everywhere in temperate and tropical seas. On our own eastern coast there are at least twenty-five species, all of them eatable, but none of them of much importance except Pompanoes. On the California coast there are two or three species of this family, of small commercial importance. Caranx hippos, the Cavally of the Gulf of Mexico and Eastern Florida—the ''Horse Crevalle" of South Carolina—occurs abundantly on our Southern coast, and has been recorded by Prof. Poey from Cuba and by Cope from St. Christopher and St. Croix. It is generally dis- tributed throughout the West Indies, and is found along the Pacific coast the Gulf of California to Panama. The species was originally described. 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 Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896. New York, Standard book co.
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