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Prudence Island. A specimen 18 inches long was taken in a trap August 

 20, 1905, near Saunderstown. Another was reported by a fisherman in 

 the upper part of Narragansett Bay about two weeks later. 



Habitat: A bottom fish of sluggish habits. 



Reproduction: Probably spawns in brackish water in the spring, as young 

 3 inches long were found in August in the eelgrass in Tuckahoe River, 

 New Jersey. (Goode.) 



Food: Small fishes, muscles, shrimp. 



Size: Three feet. 



PRIACANTHID^. Catalufas. 



114. Pseudopriacanthus altus (Gill) . Big-eye. 



Geog. Dist. : West Indies in rather deep water, north to Cape Cod. 



Season in R. I.: Very rare. A few have been taken at Woods Hole and 

 vicinity. The type of this species described by GiU was a very young 

 specimen taken in Narragansett Bay near Conanicut Ferry in September, 

 1860. (Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1870, 120.) 



LUTIANID.^. The Snappers. 



115. Neomaenis griseus (Linnaeus). Gray Snapper; Mangrove Snapper. 

 Geog. Dist.: West Indies, ranging from New Jersey to Brazil, straying 



northward to Woods Hole. 

 Season in R. I.: A snapper was taken in 1896 at Newport which was prob- 

 ably this species. A few others have been taken at Woods Hole in 

 September. (H. M. Smith, The Fishes of Woods Hole, Bull. U. S. Fish 

 Commission, 1897, 100.) 



SPARID.^. The Porgies. 



116. Stenotomus chrysops (Linnseus). Scup; Porgy; Scuppaug. 



Geog. Dist.: Most abundant on south coast of New England. Ranges 

 from Casco Bay, Maine, to South Carolina. 

 Migrations: They strike directly on the southern New England coast from 

 their winter habitat in warmer water; they begin to leave about the 

 middle of October. Cod have been taken on Nantucket shoals, in late 

 November, filled with small scup. 



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