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 . TEXPOUXDER, Elops sannis. BONEFISH, Albula vulpes The Bony-fish ; Ten-Pounder ghost-fishes which are sometimes thrown up on the beach in largenumbers by the waves. The bony-fish rejoices in a multipHcity of vernacular names,among which are big-eyed herring, piojo, matajuelo real, chiro, Liza,Francesca, ten-pounder, and John Mariggle. Its excellent qualitiesas a game-fish are only beginning to be appreciated. Hea
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 . TEXPOUXDER, Elops sannis. BONEFISH, Albula vulpes The Bony-fish ; Ten-Pounder ghost-fishes which are sometimes thrown up on the beach in largenumbers by the waves. The bony-fish rejoices in a multipHcity of vernacular names,among which are big-eyed herring, piojo, matajuelo real, chiro, Liza,Francesca, ten-pounder, and John Mariggle. Its excellent qualitiesas a game-fish are only beginning to be appreciated. Head 4^^; depth 5 to 6; eye 4 to 5; snout 4^; maxillary i|;mandible i|; interorbital 5I; D. 20; A. 13; V. 15; B. 30; pectoralif; ventral 2; caudal f; scales 13-110 to 120-12; gular plate 3 to 4times as long as broad. Body very elongate; head small andpointed; mouth very large, the extremely long maxillary reaching farbeyond the eye; jaws subequal; caudal lobes long and , bluish above; the sides silvery; white beneath. 87 THE LADY-FISHES Family X. Albnlidcs Body rather long, not much compressed, covered with rathersmall, brilliantly silvery scales; head naked; snout conic, subquad-rangular, sh
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