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Title: American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896
Subjects: Fishes -- North America
Publisher: New York, Standard book company
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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r of 1875 aschool of six or seven hundred were seined on the south shore of the islands.A large one was confined in the aquarium at Wistow Lodge, the resi-dence of Hon. C. M. Allen. This aquarium is unique, being a circularbasin, embowered in tropical vegetation, and aerated by a powerfulfountain of sea water, forced up by a tide-wheel. In this limpid poolwere many gorgeously-colored species, the angel-fish, the parrot-fish, therainbow-fish, the Spanish-lady, the surgeon, the porcupine, and the ser-geant-major. Among them, as they softly floated, moving like soaringbirds, flashed in and out the Pompano, with black-tipped, streaming fins,only plainly visible when momentarily at rest in some secluded corner ofthe basin. It was the only fish I have ever seen which appeared to possessthe power of becoming phosphorescent at will. At night we could traceits nervous movements by occasional gleams of light, as the fish, turningone side toward us, touched with the other the floor of the basin.
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THE BONITO. BONITOES AND TUNNIES, Vext with the puny foe, the Tunnies leap,Flounce on the stream, and toss the mantling deep,Ride oer the foamy seas, with torture rave,Bound into air, and dash the smoking wave. Oppian, Translated by Jones, nr^HE Bonito, Sarda niediterranca, is one of those fishes which appea r tolive chiefly in the open ocean, wandering hither and thithei inlarge schools, preying upon other pelagic fishes, and approaching landonly when attracted by abundance of acceptable food. Several of thesmaller species of the group of Tunnies, to which it belongs, are knownto sailors by the same name. The common Bonito of England, Orcyuuspelamys, two or three specimens of which have been detected in our waterssince 1876, is what is here called the Striped Bonito, but the fishwhich most frequently and in greatest numbers approaches our shores isthe one which is named at the head of this section. Almost nothing isknown of its habits, and it is even impossible to define its geograph

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