NATURE'S CALENDAR ,77 



account of how he saw the bull-pouts August 5 



leading their families about guiding and 

 instructing them. Little shad are de- 

 scending the Hudson and Delaware and 

 other northern rivers to seek their fort- 

 une in the great outer world of waters, 

 where young bluetish and mackerel are 

 already becoming common, and are chas- 

 ing inshore the shoals of "spots" that 

 form the most delicious pan-fish of the 

 season. This is the month, indeed, when 

 those terrors of the sea, the swordfish, 

 bluefish, and squeteague, are most in evi- 

 dence, and furnish the best sport, rivalled 

 only by the surf-iishing for bass. The 

 bluefish and squeteague are much alike — 

 they feed in the same manner, and come 

 and go at similar dates, yet are rarely 

 seen together, a fact probably due to the 

 circumstance that the bluefish is the 

 swifter, so that he outruns and drives 

 away all the prey instead of sharing it 

 with his slower relative. Hence, the two 

 keep apart, each hunting for its own food 

 at its own pace, but both are dreaded by 

 everything smaller and weaker than they. 

 But these and all the other predatory 

 surface-feeding fishes find a vast abun- 

 dance and variety of swimming food at 

 this season in the waters off our New 

 York and southern New England coasts. 

 Whether or not the Gulf Stream is di- 

 rectly felt in the bight between Sandy 

 Hook and Cape Cod, it is certain that 

 the prevailing southerly winds bring warm 



