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The Bluefish 
T HIS fish lives in warm seas. He is 
caught in great quantities off the 
New England coast. He is usually 
about five pounds in weight, and is blue 
above and white beneath. Although the 
bluefish live largely on menhaden, they like 
all other sorts of fish smaller than them¬ 
selves. They go in schools, and attack any 
fish they meet, for they have terrible appe¬ 
tites. They are active and gamy, jumping higher out of the water, diving 
deeper, and staying under longer than any other fish of their size. 
le American Eagle 
T HIS bird was chosen for our national em¬ 
blem. He is common throughout North 
America, and is strong, powerful, and ma¬ 
jestic. He is also called the bald or the white- 
headed eagle—not that he is bald, for he only 
looks so when, after he is three years old, his head 
and neck become pure white in color. His tail is 
white also, but the rest of him is dusky brown. He 
stands almost three feet high. When he spreads 
his wings, he measures from tip to tip almost eight 
feet. He builds his nest in very high trees, or on 
some rocky mountain top. He flies long distances 
very rapidly. 
The Mack-er-el 
D OES not this fish look familiar to you? He is an old friend. Prob¬ 
ably you have mack-er-el to eat often, because it is one of the chief 
fishes used as food. If you look at one before it is cooked, you will 
see that it is less than two feet long. Alive, 
he is dark blue color along his back, which 
is marked with dark wavy stripes, and is 
white underneath. As he moves his sides 
glisten with shades of gold and blue, purple 
and green. Mack-er-el go north in the spring 
in large numbers, called “schools,” swim¬ 
ming near the surface of the water. Their 
home is the North Atlantic Ocean. 
