. 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 SHEEPSHEAD. THE SHEEPSHEAD. The pleasantest angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait. Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act ur, Scene I. *? I 4HE members of the family Sparidae, the " Sea-Breams " as they are often called, are especially characterized by their heavy, rather com- pressed bodies, their large heads, and strong jaws and teeth
. 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 SHEEPSHEAD. THE SHEEPSHEAD. The pleasantest angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait. Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act ur, Scene I. *? I 4HE members of the family Sparidae, the " Sea-Breams " as they are often called, are especially characterized by their heavy, rather com- pressed bodies, their large heads, and strong jaws and teeth. In addition to one or more series of teeth in the front of the jaws, either conical or in- cisorial in shape, adapted for tearing their food from its lodging places, they always have a set of heavy, flat, grinding-teeth in the back of the mouth, which are often in double or triple rows on each side and are closely set, like the stones in a mosaic. Their use is to crush hard shells of mol- lusks and of barnacles, and other crustaceans. They are sedentary in their habits, living close to the bottom and browsing among the rocks and piles. Their colors are usually inconspicuous and their motions slug- gish. Representatives of this family are found throughout the world in temperate and tropical waters everywhere, and were numerous in the seas and lagoons of the Tertiary and Cretaceous periods. The most important representatives of the family in America, are the. 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. Boston : Estes and Lauriat
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