THE WEAK FISH OR SQUETEAGUE. 
THE SQUETEAGUES. 
Weekvis, en Schol, en Carper, Bot, en Snoek, 
Ja gy en hebt geen poel, geen water-hoek, 
Of’t krielter vol von Visschen ; die (te soek) 
Ticht zinj te vinden. 
Jacos SteEnpaM, ’¢ Louf van Niew Nederland, 1661, 
You’ve weak-fish, carp and turbot, pike and plaice ; 
There’s not a pool, or tiny water-trace 
Where swam not myriads of the finny race 
Easily taken. 
Praise of New Netherland, translated by Hon. H. C. Mupnuy. 
Te genus Cynoscion, is represented on our Atlantic coast by three 
species. Cynoscion regale, the Weakfish, or Squeteague, is found 
from Cape Ann to the mouth of the St. John’s River, Fla., and possibly 
to the Gulf of Mexico. Cynoscion carolinense, the Spotted Squeteague, 
or Southern Sea Trout, ranges from the Chesapeake to the Gulf of Mexico 
and Lake Pontchartrain. The Silvery Squeteague, Cywoscion nothum, is a 
fish of somewhat unusual occurrence, observed at Charleston and in East 
and West Florida. There was still another, described by Holbrook under 
the name Cynoscion thalassinum, which has not been seen by other natur- 
alists, and which is probably not a valid species. 
Like all of our important fishes which have no European representative, 
the Squeteague are known bya great variety of names. About Cape Cod 
they are called ‘‘ Drummers ;’’ about Buzzard’s Bay and in the vicinity 
