. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. THE SILVER CEEO. The early chronicles of the colonies seem to contain no references tothe Spanish Mackerel under its present name, but it seems certain that thisfish was the speckled hound-fish, spoken of in that renowned work, NewEngland Rarities, Discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents and Plantsof that country, etc., by John Josselyn, Crent, published in 1672.Josselyn wrote of Blew-fish or hound-fish, two kinds, speckled hound-fish, called hor
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. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. THE SILVER CEEO. The early chronicles of the colonies seem to contain no references tothe Spanish Mackerel under its present name, but it seems certain that thisfish was the speckled hound-fish, spoken of in that renowned work, NewEngland Rarities, Discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents and Plantsof that country, etc., by John Josselyn, Crent, published in 1672.Josselyn wrote of Blew-fish or hound-fish, two kinds, speckled hound-fish, called horse-fish.* The blue-hound-fish can be nothing else than thecommon blue-fish of our coast, {^Pomatomus saltatrix), and no species inthe western Atlantic, other than our Spanish Mackerel, sufficiently resem-bles the blue-fish to warrant the use of so similar a name. Mitchill referred THE SPANISH MACKEREL AND THE CEROES. 193 to the species in 1815, in a manner which seems to indicate that it wasnot of rare occurrence, but from his day to 1870, it seems to have attractedbut little attention. Even Mitchills published description does not seem