. The American angler's book: embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them. With instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making; and directions for fish-breeding. To which is appended, Dies piscatoriae: describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing. Illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. SALT-WATER FISH AND PISHING. 289. SPOT, PIGFISH, OE GOODY. Leiosiomws obliquus: Cutier. Body compressed, oval; back arched anteriorly; belly straight to first ray of the anal fin; head large.' Color: back gray, shading to
. The American angler's book: embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them. With instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making; and directions for fish-breeding. To which is appended, Dies piscatoriae: describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing. Illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. SALT-WATER FISH AND PISHING. 289. SPOT, PIGFISH, OE GOODY. Leiosiomws obliquus: Cutier. Body compressed, oval; back arched anteriorly; belly straight to first ray of the anal fin; head large.' Color: back gray, shading to a yellowish-bronze at the- lateral line; sides brownish-yellow; belly light yellow. There are twelve or more oblique bars extending from the top of the back to a small distance below the lateral line, which is concurrent with, the back. It has a distinct dark-brown spot above the posterior point of the opercle. Fins: first dorsal, ten spines; second dorsal, one short spine and twenty-nine or thirty soft rays; pectorals, eighteen; ventrals, one spine and four branched rays; anal, two spines and twelve rays; caudal, eighteen. The mouth is small; the upper jaw is set with small, obtuse, conical teeth; so also are the pharyngeal bones. De Kay gives this fish the local name of "Lafayette Fish," from its having first been found in the waters about New York, at the time of General Lafayette's visit to America. Holbrook, in his Ichthyology of South Carolina, calls it by the common name of Chub, which of course will strike any fresh-water angler as a misnomer. The most common name 19. 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 Norris, Thaddeus, 1811-1877. Philadelphia, E. H. Butler
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