American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . JOLT-HEAD PORGY, Cal^ius ba;oii^^. JOLT-HEAD PORGY. Calamus hajonado Little-head Porgy southern Florida. About Key West and Havana it is generally com-mon, but less abundant than the little-head and jolt-head porgies. ItsSpanish name is pez de pluma or pluma. At Key West the conchsassure you that its English name is correctly pronounced reaches a length of a foot and a weight of a pound or more, th
American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . JOLT-HEAD PORGY, Cal^ius ba;oii^^. JOLT-HEAD PORGY. Calamus hajonado Little-head Porgy southern Florida. About Key West and Havana it is generally com-mon, but less abundant than the little-head and jolt-head porgies. ItsSpanish name is pez de pluma or pluma. At Key West the conchsassure you that its English name is correctly pronounced reaches a length of a foot and a weight of a pound or more, thoughthe weight of those seen in market does not usually exceed | pound. Itis an excellent food-fish and always commands a good price. It takesthe hook readily, and affords considerable sport as a game-tlsh. Colour in life, silvery with bluish reflections; the base and centralportion of each scale golden, forming distinct longitudinal stripes,, thestripes between these pearly or bluish; rows of scales on cheek andopercles with the pearly stripe median, the golden marginal; a deepviolet stripe below orbit, not extending forward on snout nor backwardon opercles; preorbital deep dull violet like the snout, the groun
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