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MARGATE FISH – (Haemulon album) Grey Grunt, Grunt, Margaret Fish, Margaret Grunt, Margate, Margate Fish, Ronco Blanco, Viuda, White Grunt, White Margate, White Pogret, Yellow Grunt
about 3/7 natural size |
Artist: A.Radclyffe Dugmore
The wording in the box above is what is printed at the bottom of the print.
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Description Of Fish
This beautiful and important fish is found from southern Florida to Brazil. At Key West it is a common and valued food-fish. It attains a weight of 8 or 10 pounds, the average being 4 to 6 pounds. It is found chiefly in deep water, most abundantly about the-reefs. It is said to spawn early in summer on rock bottom, at which time it is said to school. At night it comes into shallower water to feed upon crabs, crawfish, and worms, which seem to be its principal food. Cold is said to affect this fish very greatly, driving it away to deeper or warmer water.
The name margate-fish appears to have been derived from Margale, a well-known seaport and watering-place in England, from which some of the " conchs " or natives of the Bahamas originally came. In the Bahamas and at Key West the name is now variously corrupted into margat, market, margaret, and margarite. Colour in life, pearly white, olivaceous above and on sides, somewhat bluish below; edges of scales above darker; small whitish spots on centres of scales between nape and pectoral; a brownish streak from snout, following curve of back and ending at last soft ray of dorsal; another from forehead above eye, curving upward across side, then downward, and under last dorsal rays joining a broader, more distinct dark band which runs straight from snout through eye and along middle of side to base of caudal; belly and lower part of side with 4 or 5 rows of small pearly spots; fins all olivaceous, bluish, the soft dorsal and caudal darker olivaceous.
SIZE: Print size is 7 inches by 10 inches.
CONDITION: Condition is good. Blank on reverse.
DATE: This print was made in 1902. |
