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This is better known in New York as the Black fish ; farther south it is styled 

 Chub or Salt-water Chub, Moll, Will, George and Oyster fish. Mitchill gives the 

 name Tautog as of Mohegan origin. He publishes for the species the names Toad, 

 Black fish and Runner. The Mohegan name Tautog, according to DeKay, is said 

 to mean black. The fish is found from Nova Scotia to Virginia. It occurs in all 

 parts of Great South Bay visited byus. Some of the localities at which it was 

 taken are the following : Blue Point Cove and Life Saving Station, Great River 

 Beach and Fire Island. The name used at Patchogue is Black fish. We saw a few 

 Tautog among the fishes caught in a trap at Islip, October i, 1890. In 1898 speci- 

 mens were obtained in Peconic Bay, at Blue Point Cove, Islip, Nichols's Point and 

 Fire Island Inlet; young individuals were taken July 29, August 25, September i 

 and 1 6. Following is a list of localities in which the Tautog was sparingly taken 

 in Great South Bay in 1901 : Clam Pond Cove, July 19; Fire Island Inlet, August 

 15; Cherry Grove, August 17; Smith's Point, August 23; Mouth Swan River, 

 September 25 ; Off Widow's Creek (young), September 28 ; Off Swan River (young), 

 October 8 and October 1 1. 



Dr. Mitchill gives a most entertaining account of the habits and mode of capture 

 of this well-known species. At the time of his writing, in 1814, the price varied 

 from 8 to 12 cents a pound. 



132. Spade Fish; Triple Tail; Angel Fish (CJicetodiptcrus faber Broussonet). 



Chcztodon oviformis MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 247, pi. V, fig. 4, 1815, 

 New York. 



Ephippus gigas DEKAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 99, pi. 23, fig. 71, 1842, New York. 



Ephippus faber DEKAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 97, pi. 23, fig. 68, 1842. 



Chcetodiptertis faber JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 613, 1883; BEAN, 

 igth Kept. Comm. Fish. N. Y. 253, pi. VI, fig. 8, 1890; JORDAN & EVERMANN, 

 Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., II, 1668, 1896; IV, pi. CCXLVII, fig. 619, 1900. 



Grayish ; a dusky band across the eye to the throat ; a second similar band, 

 broader, beginning in front of the dorsal and extending across the base of the 

 pectoral to the belly ; a third band narrower, extending to the middle of the sides 

 from the base of the fourth and fifth dorsal spines; a fourth broader band from the 

 last dorsal spines to anal spines, the remaining bands alternately short and long ; all 

 of these bands growing obscure and disappearing with age ; ventrals black. 



The Moon fish is the Sheepshead Cheetodon of Mitchill, and the Banded 

 Ephippus of DeKay. Dr. Mitchill records it as taken at the east end of Long 

 Island, July 27, 1815. DeKay, in his New York Fauna, has the following concern- 



