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 . SAILORS CHOICE, Hccmidon parra Gray Grunt; Striped Grunt Colour in life, pearly white, olivaceous above and on sides, some-what bluish below; edges of scales above darker; small whitish spotson centres of scales between nape and pectoral; a brovvnish streakfrom snout, following curve of back and ending at last soft ray ofdorsal; another from forehead above eye, curving upward acrossside, then downward, and under
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 . SAILORS CHOICE, Hccmidon parra Gray Grunt; Striped Grunt Colour in life, pearly white, olivaceous above and on sides, some-what bluish below; edges of scales above darker; small whitish spotson centres of scales between nape and pectoral; a brovvnish streakfrom snout, following curve of back and ending at last soft ray ofdorsal; another from forehead above eye, curving upward acrossside, then downward, and under last dorsal rays joining a broader,more distinct dark band which runs straight from snout through eyeand along middle of side to base of caudal; belly and lower part ofside with 4 or 5 rows of small pearly spots; fins all olivaceous,bluish, the soft dorsal and caudal darker Gray Grunt; Striped Grunt H(Amnion macrostoiuum Giinther This grunt is found from Indian River and Clearwater Harbor,Florida, southward to Jamaica and St. Thomas, but does not appearvery common anywhere. Not many were seen in Porto Rico, whereit is known as corocoro. It reaches a foot or more in length and is agood food-fish. Colour in life, body dirty silvery with about 9 dark longitudinalstreaks, plainest in the young; a median stripe from snout to dorsalfin; first and second lateral stripes from above eye to posterior end ofsoft dorsal; third from upper rim of orbit to vertical of posterior end 423 Bastard Margaret; Ronco of soft dorsal, where it joins the fifth; fourth, which is usually indis-tinct, from eye across opercle and disappearing on middle of side;the fifth and plainest from eye along middle of side, crossing lateralline, and joining third ends at base of caudal above lateral line; otherlines on side more or less broken and indistinct; head dark grayishpurple; an inky bl
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