. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. 126 AMERICAN FISHES. ite bait is the drum, and being strong, lively and active in habit, they afford great sport to the fishermen. They prefer deep and running waters, and seldom approach so near the shore as to be taken in seines. Their ordinary food seems to consist of various species of small THE WHITING. MEXTICIRRUS ALBURXUS. Speaking of the "Surf Whiting," of Charleston, Holbrook remarks: " This species makes it
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. 126 AMERICAN FISHES. ite bait is the drum, and being strong, lively and active in habit, they afford great sport to the fishermen. They prefer deep and running waters, and seldom approach so near the shore as to be taken in seines. Their ordinary food seems to consist of various species of small THE WHITING. MEXTICIRRUS ALBURXUS. Speaking of the "Surf Whiting," of Charleston, Holbrook remarks: " This species makes its appearance on the coast of Carolina in the month of April, and continues with us during the entire summer, though very few are taken in July or August. It is only found in shallow water where the bottom is hard and sandy, often forming, when the tide is out, an exten- sive beach. Its favorite resort is in the neighborhood of the shore where the surf can roll over it from the ocean and bring with it doubtless the animals on which it feeds. In such localities many are captured with the seine and are sold in the market under the name '? Surf Whiting,' in con- tradistinction to the other species which is called the ' Deep-water Whiting,' Its food seems to be similar to that of the Deep-water Whiting, judging from the contents of its stomach, and yet it is seldom taken with the hook. Hitherto I have only seen this fish in the immediate neighborhood of Charleston, This fish is very commonly supposed to be the adult male of the common Whiting, approaching the shoal water to deposit its spawn. I believed it, from common report, to be such, until frequent dissections proved to me that there are both males and females among them. The flesh of this species is good, but by no means so finely flavored as that of the Deep-water ; At Mayport, Fla., the Whiting is abundant, and also at the mouth of the St. John's, The largest observed by me measured ten inches, and in the first
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