. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . enyoncimis lineatus, is known about San Francisco as the Little it is called the Little Roncador. The name Cognard, saidby Dr. Ayers to be given to it in San Francisco, is unknown to us. Itreaches a weight of little over a pound, and a length of a foot; it is foundfrom Tomales to San Diego, being most abundant from Santa Barbara toSan Francisco. It often comes into the markets in large numbers; it SPOTS, CROAKERS AND RONCADORS. 135 feed
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . enyoncimis lineatus, is known about San Francisco as the Little it is called the Little Roncador. The name Cognard, saidby Dr. Ayers to be given to it in San Francisco, is unknown to us. Itreaches a weight of little over a pound, and a length of a foot; it is foundfrom Tomales to San Diego, being most abundant from Santa Barbara toSan Francisco. It often comes into the markets in large numbers; it SPOTS, CROAKERS AND RONCADORS. 135 feeds chiefly on Crustacea and spawns in July. It is a food-fish of goodquality when fresh, but its flesh becomes soft in the market sooner thanthat of most species. Many are dried by the Chinese. Umbrma roncador, generally known as the Yellow-tailed or Yel-low-finned Roncador. It reaches a length of more than a foot, and aweight of two or three pounds. It is found from Santa Barbara southward,and is generally abundant, especially in summer. It feeds on Crustacea-and spawns in July. It is a food-fish of good quality. Many are splitand THE SEA DRUM. (Young.) SEA DRUM AND LAKE DRUM. His drumming heart cheers up his burning eye. Shakespeare, Rape of Lucrece. ^TEXT to the sword-fish, tunny, jew-fish, and halibut, the Drum isperhaps the Largest of the food-fishes of our coast. It is most abun-dant in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Southern Atlantic States, thoughnearly every summer a few specimens appear on the south coast of NewEngland. In one or two instances individuals have been observed as farnorth as Provincetown, Mass. In the Gulf it is common everywhere,even to the southern boundarv of Texas : how much further south it eoesthere is at present no means of determining. Ichthyologists formerly sup-posed that there were two species, one of which, of small size and con-spicuously banded with brown and white, was called the Banded Drum,P. fasciatus, or Little Drum. This is now
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