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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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s to three species known respectively as the White, Yellow and Black Grunt, which are found at Key West and upon the neigh-boring reef in great abundance. Restates that they are taken withhook and line, and are brought daily into market. Before the poisonedAvater visited that neighborhood the Grunt was the most important as wellas the favorite food-fish in the market, but since then they have beenscarce, and other fish, to a great extent, have taken their place. On the coast of California, especially southward, occur two species ofthis family; one, known by the name Sargo, Pristipoma Davil-sfl/ii, is found from San Pedro southward to Cerros Island, chiefly aboutthe islands, and is nowhere common. It feeds on crustaceans, and is aa good pan-fish, but is too scarce to have much economic value. Itreaches a length of about fifteen inches. Still another, Xenistius califor-nicnsis Steindachner, occurs from San Diego to Cape San Lucas. It istoo scarce to be of any importance for food. / ^ ^.
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.,-rf^ \ THE SHEEPSnEAD. THE SHEEPSHEAD. The pleasantest angling is to see the fishCut with her golden oars the silver streamAnd greedily devour the treacherous bait. Shakespeare, Mitch Ado About Nothing, Act in, Scene i. I ^HE members of the family Sparidac, the Sea-Breams as they areoften called, are especially characterized by their heavy, rather com-pressed bodies, their large heads, and strong jaws and teeth. In additionto one or more series of teeth in the front of the jaws, either conical or in-cisorial in shape, adapted for tearing their food from its lodging places,they always have a set of heavy, flat, grinding-teeth in the back of themouth, which are often in double or triple rows on each side and are closelyset, like the stones in a mosaic. Their use is to crush hard shells of mol-lusks and of barnacles, and other crustaceans. They are sedentary intheir habits, living close to the bottom and browsing among the rocksand piles. Their colors are usually inconspicuous and thei

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