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way to the sea. These young are tlien of about one pound weight, ap- 

 pearing to the casual observer like Pampano, and I am told that they 

 equal it for edible purposes. They are caught accidentally by seines and 

 trolling-lines. Large ones are not considered choice food, the flesh being 

 dark and almost tasteless. The average weight is twelve pounds ; oc- 

 casionally they attain the size of twenty pounds." 



The Golden Mackerel. 



( Carangus cli rysos.) 



The Golden Mackerel, called "Yellow Mackerel" at Xew York, and 

 " Sun-fish," in Xorth Carolina, is said to be somewhat abundant in Beau- 

 fort Harbor. It has also been obtained at Wood's Holl, Mass. It has 

 been confused with the other related forms and but little is known of 

 it. The species called by Girard Carangus esculentus, and identified by 

 Gill with this species, was found on the coast of Texas. I obtained a 

 single specimen in the Saint John's Eiver in the spring of 1878. 



The Cuba Jurel. 



{Carangus fallax.) 



The occurrence of this species on our coast is vouched for only by a 

 drawing, made by Mr. J. H. Eichard, of a fish taken in South Carolina. 

 Upon this drawing Holbrook founded his species C. Ricliardii. Caran- 

 gus fallax occurs at various points in the West Indies, and it would be 

 by no means imi^ossible that a straggler should have found its way to 

 Charleston. According to Professor Poey this fish has been prohibited 

 fiom sale in Cuba from time immemorial, and Avith good reason, since 

 many disastrous cases have followed its use as food. 



The Scad. 



( Trachurus Phimierianns.) 



The Scad, known in Kew England as the Horse Mackerel, appears to 

 occur in all temperate and tropical waters. Its distribution is given by 

 Giinther as extending "from the coasts of the temperate parts of Eu- 

 rope, along the coasts of Africa, round the Cape of Good Hope, into 

 the East Indian seas, to the coasts of aSTew Zealand and West America." 



In Europe the Scad ranges north to the Drontjem's Fjord, latitude 

 65°, occurring also in abundance in the Mediterranean. On the coast 

 of Holland it is known as the "Marse Banker" or "Hors." It is inter- 

 esting to American ichthyologists, since the similarity of its habits to 

 those of the Menhaden, so important in our waters, caused the latter 

 fish to be called, among the early Dutch colonists of Xew York, by the 

 same name. European writers describe them as occurring uj)on those 

 coasts in schools of immense numbers, and it would seem that, although 



