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market of New York towards the end of October. They swim 

 in troops ; accordingly they are advantageously fished for 

 with the net, and many hundred may be taken at a single 

 cast. With the large nets which they use at Rayner-town, 

 Babylon, and the two islands, thousands of these fish are 

 drawn to land. They are packed in ice, and carried with the 

 greatest haste to the markets of New York during the cool of 

 the night ; and when the season is tolerably cold they are 

 carried to Philadelphia, to Jersey, and other places. In con- 

 sequence of its trenchant teeth it is difficult to take the sheep's- 

 head with a line, because it cuts the hooks : great pains are 

 also employed to draw it into the creeks and coves, and there 

 it is more easily taken. 



The species of Chrysophris are numerous, and extended 

 through all seas. The Mediterranean produces two, which 

 have not yet been distinguished one from the other by na- 

 turalists. Perhaps the hepatus of Rondelet may prove to be 

 a third, when ichthyologists shall have had an opportunity to 

 recover this fish, which as yet has been indicated only by that 

 author. 



The anatomy of the daurades, or chrysophris, differs but 

 little from that of the sargi. The stomach is simple, and we 

 reckon but from four to five coeca to the pylorus. No fucus 

 or marine plants have been discovered in the intestines of such 

 as have been dissected. They have not, like the sargi, the 

 facility of cutting these plants with their incisors, to cause 

 them to pass under their molars ; but their teeth, which are 

 stronger, enable them to break the thickest shells, and there 

 are found in their stomach debris of turbo, of trochus, of mo- 

 nodon, of natices, and other testacea with extremely hard shell. 



The French name of this fish is written and pronounced 

 daurade, to distinguish them from fishes of a totally different 

 genus and family (the scomberoides), which are generally called 

 dorades by navigators, and are the coryphaena of Linnaeus. 



