. 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 SPANISH MACKEREL. THE SPANISH MACKEREL AND THE CEROES. Sooner shall cats disport in water clear And speckled mackrels graze the meadows clear Than I forget my shepherds wonted love. Gay. Pastorals, 1714. Next morn they rose and set up every sail The wind was fair, but blew a mackrel gale. Dkyden. The Hind and the Panther- 1687. npHE Spanish Mackerel is surely one of the most graceful of fishes. It appeals as scarcely any ot
. 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 SPANISH MACKEREL. THE SPANISH MACKEREL AND THE CEROES. Sooner shall cats disport in water clear And speckled mackrels graze the meadows clear Than I forget my shepherds wonted love. Gay. Pastorals, 1714. Next morn they rose and set up every sail The wind was fair, but blew a mackrel gale. Dkyden. The Hind and the Panther- 1687. npHE Spanish Mackerel is surely one of the most graceful of fishes. It appeals as scarcely any other can to our love of beauty, when we look upon it, as shown in Kilbourn's well-known painting, darting like an arrow just shot from the bow, its burnished sides, silver flecked with gold, thrown into bold relief by the cool green background of the rippled sea; the transparent greys, opalescent whites and glossy blacks of its trembling fins, enhance the metallic splendor of its body, until it seems to rival the most brilliant of tropical birds. Kilbourn made copies of his large painting on the pearly linings of sea-shells, and produced some wonderful effects by allowing the natural lustre of the mother-of-pearl, to show through his transparent pigments and simulate the brilliancy of the life-inspired hues of the quivering, darting sea-sprite, whose charms even his potent brush could not properly depict. It is a lover of the sun, a fish of tropical nature, which comes to us only in midsummer, and which disappears with the approach of cold, to some region not yet explored by ichthyologists. It is doubtless very familiar in winter to the inhabitants of some region adjacent to the waters of the Caribbean or the tropical Atlantic, but until this place shall have been discovered it is more satisfactory to suppose that with the blue-fish. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appeara
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