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these specimens weighing each 4 or 5 pounds. The largest 

 drum recorded was taken at St Augustine Fla. and weighed 146 

 pounds. The large fish are not much valued for food, but small 

 ones are said to be excellent. 



Genus APLODINOTUS Rafinesque 



Body oblong, the snout blunt, the back elevated and com- 

 pressed; mouth rather small, low, horizontal, the lower jaw 

 included; teeth in villiform bands, the outer above scarcely 

 enlarged; no barbels; pseudobranchiae rather small; gill rakers 

 short and blunt; lower pharyngeals very large, fully united, with 

 coarse, blunt, paved teeth, as in Pogonias; preopercle 

 slightly serrate; dorsal spines strong and high, with a close 

 fitting scaly sheath at base, the two dorsals somewhat con- 

 nected; second anal spine very strong; caudal double truncate; 

 air bladder very large, simple, with no appendages; pylorio 

 caeca seven; vertebrae 10+14 = 24. Fresh waters of the United 

 States; large, coarse fishes, feeding chiefly on Crustacea and 

 mollusks. The genus is apparently allied to Pogonias, 

 and both may be descended from allies of Eoncador, which 

 is intermediate between them and S c i a e n a . 



287 Aplodinotus grimniens Rafinesque 

 Fresh-ivater Drum; White Peroh 



.Aploclhiotus grimniens RAFINESQUE, Jour, de Pbys. Paris, 88, 1819, Ohio 

 River; BEAN, Fishes Penna. 135, pi. 35, fig. 73, 1893; JORDAN & EVEB- 

 MANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1484, 1898, pi. OOXXVI, fig. 574, 1900. 



Sciaena oscula LE SUEUR, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 252, pi. 13, 1822, Lake 

 Ontario. 



Amblotlon ncylectus GIRARD, U. S. Mex. Bd. Surv. Fish. 12, pi. 5, figs. 6-10, 

 1859. 



AmUodon grimniens GIRARD, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish. 96, pi. 23, 1858. 



Haploidonotus (/rimniens GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 104, 1861; JORDAN 

 & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 567, 1883. 



Con-ina oscula DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 73, pi. 21, fig.. 63, 1842, Lakes 

 Erie & Ontario; GUNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. II, 297, 1860. 



The shape of the fresh-water drum is similar to that of the 

 salt-water species, the body being moderately elongate, its 

 greatest hight one third of its length without the caudal; the 

 sides are moderately compressed and the back very much so. 



