. 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. 296 AMERICAN ANGLER'S SPANISH MACKEEBL. BAY MACKEREL. Cybium maculatum: Cuvier. No adequate idea of this graceful and- brilliant fish can be conveyed by description or engraving, to one who has not seen it. Its body
. 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. 296 AMERICAN ANGLER'S SPANISH MACKEEBL. BAY MACKEREL. Cybium maculatum: Cuvier. No adequate idea of this graceful and- brilliant fish can be conveyed by description or engraving, to one who has not seen it. Its body is an elongated ellipse, somewhat compressed; its section oval; head small and long; mouth large; each jaw armed with long pointed, but compressed, teeth, inclining forwards. There are very small teeth on the vomer, palatine, and pharyngeal bones, as well as on the tongue. Color: greenish-blue on the back, shading away into a grayish pearly hue, but slightly roseate along and below the medial line; belly white, like molten silver or mother-of-pearl. It has a series of rows of dark but shining spots extending along the back and sides, from the pectorals almost to the caudal. The first dorsal fin has eighteen short weak spines; the second has one spine and fifteen rays; pectorals, nineteen rays ; ventrals, one spine and five rays; anal, two spines—not sharp—and fifteen rays; caudal, twenty or twenty-two rays. The tail has a carinated projection on each side, extending along the peduncle to the anterior curve of its caudal, which is deeply lunate, or 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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