. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE BOXITO. BONITOES AND TUNNIES, Vext with the puny foe, the Tunnies leap, Flounce on the stream, and toss the mantling deep. Ride o'er the foamy seas, with torture rave. Bound into air, and dash the smoking wave. Oppian, Translated by Jones, nr'HE Bonito, Sarda mediterranea, is one of those fishes which appea r to live chiefly in the open ocean, wandering hither and thithei' in large schools, preying upon other pelagic fishes, and approaching
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE BOXITO. BONITOES AND TUNNIES, Vext with the puny foe, the Tunnies leap, Flounce on the stream, and toss the mantling deep. Ride o'er the foamy seas, with torture rave. Bound into air, and dash the smoking wave. Oppian, Translated by Jones, nr'HE Bonito, Sarda mediterranea, is one of those fishes which appea r to live chiefly in the open ocean, wandering hither and thithei' in large schools, preying upon other pelagic fishes, and approaching land only when attracted by abundance of acceptable food. Several of the smaller species of the group of Tunnies, to which it belongs, are known to sailors by the same name. The common '^Bonito" of England, Orcynus pelamys, two or three specimens of which have been detected in our waters since 1876, is what is here called the ^^ Striped Bonito," but the fish which most frequently and in greatest numbers approaches our shores is the one which is named at the head of this section. Almost nothing is known of its habits, and it is even impossible to define its geographical range with any degree of certainty, its distribution being very unlike that of any other fish with which we are acquainted. It maybe said, howevcx that it is found only in the Atlantic basin. On our coast it occurs in summer between Cape May and Cape Sable, though rarely north of Cape Ann ; occasionally off Cape Hatteras and the mouth of the Chesapeake and in the Gulf of Mexico. Specimens have been taken about the Can- aries and Madeira, at the Cape of Good Hope and in the Mediterranean. It has not been observed on the coast of Europe north of Gibraltar, nor at 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.
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