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THE WEAK FISH OK SQUETEAGUE. 
THE SOUETEAGUES. 
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. 
Jacob Steendam, ’t Louf van Nieiu Nederland, 1(561, 
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. Muphhy. 
^T^HE genus Cy nos cion, is represented on our Atlantic coast by three 
A 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, Cynoscion 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 by a great variety of names. About Cape Cod 
they are called “Drummers;” about Buzzard’s Bay and in the vicinity 
