. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . THE THE CAVALLY AND OTHER CARANGOIDS. Swift speed crevalle over that waterj plain. Swift over Indian Rivers broad where the ripples boil with finny hosts, Bright glittering they glarice ;And when the anglers spoon is over them cast, How fierce, how vigorous the fight for life !Now in the deeps they plunge, now leap in air Till ends the unequal strife. Isaac McLellan. ? I HE members of the family Caraiigidcc, which is closely al
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . THE THE CAVALLY AND OTHER CARANGOIDS. Swift speed crevalle over that waterj plain. Swift over Indian Rivers broad where the ripples boil with finny hosts, Bright glittering they glarice ;And when the anglers spoon is over them cast, How fierce, how vigorous the fight for life !Now in the deeps they plunge, now leap in air Till ends the unequal strife. Isaac McLellan. ? I HE members of the family Caraiigidcc, which is closely allied to themackerel family, are distinguished chiefly by the form of the mouth,and by the fact that they have uniformly but twenty-four vertebrae, tenabdominal and fourteen caudal, while the mackerel have uniformly more,both abdominal and caudal. They are carnivorous fishes, aboundingeverywhere in temperate and tropical seas. On our own eastern coastthere are at least twenty-five species, all of them eatable, but none of themof much importance except Pompanoes. On the California coast there aretwo or three species of this family, of sma
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