This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...the skin is very smooth, even, and nacry, without scales. The branchiostegous membrane and the isthmus of the gills are bluish-black. The first dorsal also appears to have been blackish. Including the caudal, the specimen measures twenty-one and three-quarter inches in length. In the Zoologist for 1859 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...the skin is very smooth, even, and nacry, without scales. The branchiostegous membrane and the isthmus of the gills are bluish-black. The first dorsal also appears to have been blackish. Including the caudal, the specimen measures twenty-one and three-quarter inches in length. In the Zoologist for 1859 (p. 6731) mention is made of the capture, in a herring-net set off the coast of Banff," of an example of the Plain Bonito (Auxis vulgaris of the second edition)--a fish which has hitherto been but seldom recognised on our coasts. In the warmer districts of the Atlantic, Bonitos, Pelamids, and other large Scomberoids, are fished for with tackle rigged like a Mackerel line, but considerably stronger. The bait is a piece of bright tin, shaped like a Flying-fish, or a slice of the skin of pork, or of the tail of a Mackerel. The hook is weighted so as to sink a little beneath the surface of the water, and produces most sport when it is dragged at the rate of five miles an hour, or thereabouts. THE DERBIO. Lichia glaucus, Cuv. et Valenc. viii. p. 558, pi. 234, Premier glaucus, Rondelet, p. 252. Lampuge des Marseillais, Belon, p. 155. Scomber glaucus, Linn.sus. Gasterosteus glaucus, Forstee, Des. An. p. 5. Centronotus vel Lichia glaycos, Risso, 2mi: Edit. Centronotus binolatus, Rafinesque. Albacore, Couch, Linn. Tr. xiv. p. 82. Jenyns, Man. p. 366. Lichia. Generic Characters.--Form oval, compressed, covered with leathery scales, without keel or lateral ridges on the tail; head small; teeth minute. Dorsal spines low, isolated, each with an axillary membrane, and, in front of all, a recumbent spine; two preanal spines; second dorsal and anal long, similar to one another; no spurious fins. Seven branchiostegals. A large air-bladder, expanded...
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