INDEX. 



551 



Piie, 295; not known to the 

 Greeks or Romans, 296; ety- 

 mology of the, 397 ; longeyity of 

 the, 299 ; voracity of the, 300 ; 

 culinary merits of the, 301; 

 mode of spawning of the, 302. 



Pilot-fish, hahits of, 223 ; anec- 

 dotes of, 225. 



Plaice, 358. 



Plato, 515. 



Pliny, 30, 36, 144, 145, 193, 195, 

 237, 258, 266, 290, 306, 351, 

 353, 412, 416, 438, 459, 527, 

 537. 



Pogonia, musical sounds emitted 

 by the, 173. 



Poisonous fish, 409; known to the 

 ancients, 411. 



PoUack, 335. 



Pontoppidan, 252. 



Promachus, 523. 



Ptolemy, 273. 



Pyrrho, 515. 



Pji;liagoras, 515. 



Quin, the actor, 231. 



Bay family (see Skate). 



Eeaumur, 457. 



Eemora, 439. 



Eedi, 457. 



Riband-fish, its mode of progres- 

 sion, and beautiful appearance, 

 232. 



Roach, 280. 



Rondolet, 72, 121, 124, 126, 172, 

 258, 311, 350, 360, 374, 443. 



Rudd, 280. 



Salmon (some species of) known 

 to the ancients, 310 ; habits of, 

 314. 



Salt, yarieties of, mentioned by 

 classical writers, 65 ; scarcity 

 and high price of, in modem 

 Italy, 67. 



Sauces for fish used by the ancients, 

 66 ; garum, 66 ; alec, 70 ; spu- 

 rious imitations of them, 72 ; 

 modern compounds made to re- 

 semble them, 72. 



Sardines, 331. 



Sargos (see Sparus). 



Saw-fish, 418. 



Schelling's experiments on the 

 Narke, 458. 



Soisena, 170 ; sounds emitted by, 

 171 ; otoliths (ear-stones) of, 

 formerly thought a specific 

 against coKo, 171. 



Scomber group of fishes, 180. 



Sorope, Mr., 314. 



Sea-eagle, the, 450 ; its formidable 

 means of defence, 451. 



Sea-frog, 250 ; ughness of, 251 ; 

 description of, 252 ; habits of, 

 254. 



Sea-scorpion, 147 ; exaggerations 

 of statements as to the injuries 

 inflicted by it, 167. 



Seneca, 145, 524, 543. 



Shad (see Alose). 



Shagreen, 459. 



Shakspeare, 278, 280. 



Shark, 416 ; various species knovm 

 and described by the ancients, 

 418 ; hatred of, by the modern 

 Sicilians, 423 ; voracity and cou- 

 rage of the, 425 ; anecdotes of 

 the, 426-430 ; supposed medical 

 virtue in the teeth of the, 434 ; 

 size of the, 435 ; as a dietary ar- 

 ticle, 436. 



Sicily, fish-dealers in, 474. 



Siliu"U3 (see Grlanis). 



Skate, the, 446; description of the, 

 447 ; habits of the, 449-454 ; es- 

 timation of the, as food, 463 ; 

 eggs of the, 464. 



Sole, wide range of the, 364 ; in 

 highrepute inancient times, 365. 



Sophocles, 517. . 



Sparus, wide difiusion of the spe- 

 cies, 174 ; habits of, 176 ; crush- 

 ing power of the teeth of, 177 ; 

 mode of capture of, by the an- 

 cients, 178. 



Spiny-finned fishes, 113. 



Sticklebacks, their fecundity, 164 ; 

 interesting habits of, 165 ; fond- 

 ness for their offspring of, 166. 



Stinging- weever, 117 ;. habits of the, 

 118 ; ancient remedies for inju- 

 ries inflicted by the, 119. 



Strabo, 439. 



Sturgeon, 55 ; etymology of the. 



