128 A NATURE WOOING. 



cleared the surface of underbrush as far towards the 

 northwest as eye can reach. Saw palmettos are 

 withered and dead. The boles of pines and cabbage 

 palmettos are scorched to a dingy black, for a height 

 of twenty feet or more. The charred remains of 

 myriapods, turtles and snakes abound. Chewinks and 

 other ground birds are lamenting their accustomed 

 feeding places. All is ruin and devastation, and an- 

 other woods must I seek in order to find recreation 

 and life. 



The so-called sea trout, Cynoscion nebulosus Cuv. 

 and Yal., caught from the bridge at Onnond, is not a 



Fig. 39 Sea Trout. 



Cynoscion nebulosus Cuv. and Val. 

 (Krom Bull. 47, U. 8. Nat. Mus.) 



trout, but a "weak fish," belonging to the family 

 Scicenidae. It is probably called a trout on account 

 of the many small black blotches which are scattered 

 irregularly over its silvery sides. Mr. Bristol hooked 

 one in the back to-day and succeeded in landing it, 

 which weighed a little more than seven and a half 



