THE GAME FISH OF NORTH AMERICA. 29 



people in Great Britain calling them fresli-water Herring, while in the 

 UuitGtl States they not unfrequently pass by the name of Shad-salmon. 

 The flesh of all the varieties is delicate and highly-flavored. The 

 desire of comparing these American Coregoni with the British varie- 

 ties, and oi bringing them somewhat more into general notice, has 

 induced me to notice them, rather than their game nature. 



I now proceed to the salt water fishes, both those taken in deep, and 

 those in shoal water, of the various families above-named ; and there- 

 after shall arrange them according to their haunts and habits. 



Of those salt-water fish of the Atlantic coasts which afford the most 

 real sport to the angler, and which are alone taken with the rod and 

 reel, all the families belong to the class of the Acanthopterygii, or 

 spiny-finned fishes, none of the soft-finned fishes of the abdominal 

 division being taken in the shoal waters of the bays and estuaries ; 

 while the deep-sea fish are all of the sub-brachial Maloxopterygii^ 

 unless we may consider as such the Sea Bass and Porgee, which ai'e, 

 however, as often or oftener caught in shallow water. 



Salt-water fish, taken in shoal water, river mouths, and the like, 

 Acantkopterygii^ spiny-finued, we have of the family 

 Percid^, whereof the Pearch is the type. 

 Genus Labrax : 



The Striped Bass, Lahrax Lineatus. 



Mentioned above as a fresh-water fish, being frequently caught 

 in rivers far above tide-water, as well as in the estuaries, and 

 even in the surfs on the ocean borders. 

 Genus Centropristes : 



The Sea Bass, Centropristes Nigricans. 



SciENIDiE. 



Genus Leiostomus : 



The Sea Chub — Lafayette Fish — Leiostomus Obliquus. 

 Genus Otolithus : 



The Weak-Fish, Otolithus Regalis. 



The Southern Trout, Otolithus Carolinensis. 

 Genus Umbrina : 



The King-Fish, Umbrina Nehulosa. 

 Genus Pogonias : 



The Drum-Fish, Pogonias Chromis. 



