114. THE TKOilNBACJC. 



The fiflies of tliis fpecies are found in great plenty, and 

 make a confiderable article in our fifli markets. They 

 are fond of devouring herring, mackrel, and eels ; but 

 their common food is probably the different kinds of 

 ground fifh ; cruftaceous animals, fuch as the crab and 

 lobfler, have been found in their llomachs, which are fup'^ 

 plied with a powerful folvent, capable of fpeedily re- 

 ducing the fliells into a chyle fit for their fiipport. 



