. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . asteless. The average weight is twelve pounds; occasionally they-attain the size of twenty pounds. Prof. Jordan found this species abundant in Lake Pontchartrain. Caranx cnnnenophthalinus, called in the Bermudas, where it is of someimportance as a food-fish, the Goggler, or Goggle-eyed Jack, andin Cuba the Cicharra, occurs in the West Indies and along the Atlan-tic coast of the United States north to Vineyard Sound. It is also foundat Panama and in th
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . asteless. The average weight is twelve pounds; occasionally they-attain the size of twenty pounds. Prof. Jordan found this species abundant in Lake Pontchartrain. Caranx cnnnenophthalinus, called in the Bermudas, where it is of someimportance as a food-fish, the Goggler, or Goggle-eyed Jack, andin Cuba the Cicharra, occurs in the West Indies and along the Atlan-tic coast of the United States north to Vineyard Sound. It is also foundat Panama and in the Gulf of California, and in the Indian Ocean, theRed Sea, and off the coast of Guinea, while, as has been remarked, it isabundant in the Bermudas. Its large, protruding eyes are very noticeablefeatures, and the Bermuda name seems appropriate for adoption, since thefish has with us never received a distinctive name. In form it somewhatresembles the species last discussed, with which it is probably often,confused. Stearns speaks of a fish, common at Key West, which is known,as the Horse-eyed Jack, and this may prove to be the same THE JUEEL OR HARD-TAIL, Caranxpisquetus, known about Pensacola as the Jurel. Cojinua,and Hard-tail; along the Florida coast as Jack-fish and Skip-jack; in the Bermudas as the Jack or Buffalo Jack; in SouthCarolina as the Horse Crevalle; at Fort Macon as the HorseMackerel ; about New York and on the coast of New Jersey as the Yel-low Mackerel, is found in the Western Atlantic from Brazil, Cuba, and THE CAVALLY AND OTHER CARANGOIDS. 229 Hayti to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where specimens were secured by theUnited States Fish Commission in 1877. It is one of the commonestsummer visitants of the West Indian fauna along the whole coast ofSouthern New England and the Middle States, being especially abundantin the Gulf of Mexico, and one of the commonest fishes in the fish is occasionally brought to the New York market, but is of nospecial
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