BONETTA, OR BONITO. 



line waves prettily along its course, pectoral fin rather 

 short, and contains twenty-four rays ; the ventral smaller, 

 and has six, the anal fourteen ; caudal twenty-four, with 

 some imperfect ones. Tail forked and almost lunated ; three 

 longitudinal excrescences on each side." 



Caught all along the coast from New York to Florida, and 

 iu the Gulf of Mexico ; afford good sport with the trolling- 

 line and metal squid, and are sometimes taken with the rod 

 and reel and heavy implements, as in casting for the striped 

 basse. Is a good broiler, and very -highly esteemed at the 

 South, where they sing his praises in rhyme in the following 



lines : 



u Bright bonetta I or bonito ! 

 It matters not to me 

 What they call ihee, 

 Thou Adonis of the sea ! 

 Oh, what rapture 

 Tu thy capture, 

 Or, when e-ervert 

 Upon the platter. 

 For breakfast or for tea, 

 It matters not to me, 

 None is richer, none is fatter, 

 Than the Adonis of the sea I " 



FRESH-WATER FISHES. 



TIME OE SPAWNING. 



Salmon 



Brook Trout 



Grayling 



Pike, Pickerel . 



Perch .... 



Pike, Perch, or Glass-Bye 



Sunns* 



Carp 



November to March. 

 October to February inclusive. 

 March and April. 

 February to April. 

 March and April. 

 February and April. 



May to September. 



