BONY FISHES. 



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the shores for feeding or spawning. The mackerel is 

 highly esteemed as food, but its flesh spoils rapidly. 



FIG. 267. 



SURMULLET. 



The Spanish mackerel, or tunny fish, has bright-yellow 

 spots on the sides, and grows much larger than the 

 common mackerel. It is an excellent food-fish, and is 

 generally preserved in oil. 



FIG. 268. 



COMMON MACKEREL (Scomber scomber). 



The blue-fish is one of the finest fishes of the Atlantic 

 coasts of the United States ; it is very rapacious, and it 

 furnishes excellent sport. Some have been caught five 

 feet long, but those usually taken average about two feet 

 in length. 



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