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NEW- YORK FAUNA. 



tember and October, but is too small to be of much importance as an article of food. I have 

 eaten of them, and found them to be very delicate. They abound on the shallow flats on the 

 Jersey shore opposite New- York, where they are called Calico and Coverclip. It has been 

 taken as high up the Hudson as Peekskill. When first taken from the water, it escapes 

 readily from the hand by an undulatory movement, in which it is aided by its mucous surface, 

 and by an elevation of its scales beneath. By the same means, it can make considerable pro- 

 gress over a moderately smooth surface. It is extremely tenacious of life, and I kept one 

 alive four days out of water. Among the drawings of Dr. Holbrook, I notice a figure of this, 

 or of a closely allied species. The head appears somewhat more pointed, and the back is 

 covered with meandering dusky blotches, intermixed with eight black transverse angular bars 

 across the body and tail. It is probably the true lineatus of Linneus. 

 The range of the New- York Sole extends from Nantucket to Carolina. 



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Genus Plagusia, Cuvier. No pectoral fins. Dorsal, caudal and anal fins united. 

 P. fasciata. (Holbrook, Illustrations, pi.) Body elongated, terminating in a point. With seven 

 broad transverse dusky bands. South-Carolina. 



Under the name of P. apoda, Dr. Mitchill has described, from the Bahama channel, a spe- 

 cies of the genus Monochirus, which will probably be found on the southern coast of the 

 United States. (See Am. Month. Mag. Vol. 2, p. 244.) It is nearly circular, with twenty 

 transverse black stripes. 



