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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: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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VN^ THE SHEEPSHEAD. THE SHEEPSHEAD. The pleasantest angling is to see the fishCut with her golden oars the silver streamAnd greedily devour the treacherous bait. Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act iii, Scene I. P^HE members of the family Sparidae, 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 their moti

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