Confusion of 

 Names 



Of Ancient Age 

 and Lineage 



Favorite Fish and Fishing 



sometimes with photo-illustrations of the 

 fishes concerned, which, however, only 

 served to make confusion worse con- 

 founded. For instance, I remember one 

 communication with an illustration of the 

 ladyfish, but which was stated in the text 

 to be the bonefish and not the ladyfish. 



This confusion of names arose originally 

 from the fact that the names bone-fish and 

 bony-fish were applied indiscriminately by 

 native fishermen to both ladyfish and ten- 

 pounder; indeed, the names ladyfish, ten- 

 pounder, and their synonyms bonefish and 

 bony-fish date back to our earliest history. 

 In Natal it is called u springer." 



Their scientific names were both be- 

 stowed by Linnaeus more than two hundred 

 years ago. Catesby, in 1737, called the 

 ladyfish of the Bahamas " bonefish," while 

 Captain William Dampier, one of the early 

 explorers, called the bony-fish of the Baha- 

 mas " ten-pounder." While the two fishes 

 are both allied to the herring tribe, they 

 belong to different families, though the 

 young of both species undergo a metamor- 

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