THE GAME FISH OF NORTH AMERICA. 29i 



people in Great Britain calling them fresh-water Herring, while in the 

 United States they not unfrequently pass by the name of Shad-salmon. 

 The flesh of all the varieties is delicate and highly-flavored. The 

 desire of comparing these American Coregoni with the British varie- 

 ties, and of bringing them somewhat more into general notice, has 

 induced me to notice them, rather than their game nature. 



I now proceed to the salt water fishes, both those taken in deep, and 

 those in shoal water, of the various families above-named ; and there- 

 after shall arrange them according to their haunts and habits. 



Of those salt-water fish of the Atlantic coasts which afford the most 

 real sport to the angler, and which are alone taken with the rod and 

 reel, S'H the families belong to the class of the Aca/ntkopterygii, or 

 spiny-finned fishes, none of the S(>ft-finnpd fishes of the abdominal 

 division being taken in tlio shoal waters of the bays and estuaries ; 

 while the deep-sea fish are all of the gub-brauliial Malacopterygii, 

 unless we may consider as such the Sea Bass and Porgee, which.aje, 

 however, as often or oftener caught in shallow water. 



Salt-water fish, taken in shoal water, river mouths, and the like, 

 Adsmthoptery gii, spiny-finned, we have of the family 

 PERCina:, whereof the Pearch is th6 type. 

 Genus Labrax : 



The Striped Bass, Labrax lAneatus. 



Mentioned above as a fresh-water fish, being frequently caught 

 in rivers far above tide-water, as well as in the estuaries, and 

 even in the surfs on the Ocean borders. 

 Genus Centropristes : 



The Sea Bass, Centropristes Nigricam. 

 SciENiDa:. 

 Genus Leiostomus : 



The Sea Chub — Lafayette Fish — Leiostomus Ohliquus. 

 Genus Otolithus : 



The Weak-Fish, Otolithus Regalis. 

 The Southern Trout, Otolithus Gwrolinensis. 

 Genus Umbrina : 



The King-Fish, Umhrina Nehulosa. 

 Genus Pogonias : 



The DrUm-Fish, Pogonias Chromis. 



