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13: Perca marina cauda nigra (the BLACK-TAiL)=£r(mi«?o?j melanurum (L.). 

 Type oi Perca melanura,Ij., S. N.,ed. X, 294. 



This i.s a comparatively excellent figure of the species called Hamulon 

 tlorsale by Poey. Whether this species is now called Blacktail or not 

 I do not know. There can, however, be no room for doubt that it is 

 this species which is intended by Catesby, rather than Lutjanns chry- 

 sums as Goode has supposed. 



14. Hirundo (the Flying-fish) = ^a;oc«;tMS sp. (Tab. 8, f. 1.) 



This poor figure contains nothing by which the species can be guessed 

 at. No binomial name has been based upon it.. 



15. Perca Marina sectatrix {the Eudder-fish) = ? (Tab. 8, f. 2.) 



Type of Perca sectatrix, L., S. N., ed. XII, 486, and of Perca saltalrix (misprint 

 for sectatrix), S. N., ed. X, 293. 



Undoubtedly intended for the young of Gypliosus hosqui, Cyplwsus 

 is now called Chub, and never, so far as I know, Eudder-fish. The story 

 told by Catesby of his fish following ships in large schools to feed on 

 slime from the rudder has also been told of the CypJwsus (Pimelepierus). 

 This species may stand as Cyplwsus sectatrix. 



16. Perca fluviatilis gibbosa ventre luteo (the Fkesh- water VEA.ncn)=Lepomis 



gibbosus {L.). (Tab. 8, f. 3.) 

 Type of Perca gibbosa, L., S. N., ed. X, 1758, 292. 



In the twelfth edition of the Systema Nature it is erroneously re- 

 ferred to the synonymy of Labrus auritus. Catesby's figure evidently 

 represents the species called Fomotis vulgaris and Pomotis cateshyi by 

 Cuv. & Val. The name gibbosa, as Mr. McKay has already shown, 

 must supersede aureus (VYalbaum), vulgaris (C. & V.), and other later 

 names. The Labrus auritus, described from a specimen from Philadel- 

 phia, seems, as Dr. Gill has several times shown, to be the long-eared 

 Sun-fish, Ichthelis rubricauda of Holbrook. 



17. Turdus pinnis, branchialibus carens (the mangrove Snapper) =iw<;anM8 



griseus (L.). (Tab. ix. ) 



Type of Labrus griset(8,Ij., S. N., ed. X, 283. 



A very poor figure, evidently made from memory. Both the form 

 and coloration, however, resemble the Lutjamis caballerote more than 

 any other Bahama fish, slight as the likeness is. The name Mangrove 

 Snapper gives us an important clew, as no species other than the Ca- 

 ballerote is known by this name to the Key "West fishermen. The name 

 Mangrove Snapper is very appropriate, as the young of this species 

 swarm everywhere in the shelter of the mangrove bushes about the 

 mangrove islands. I think, therefore, that, in view of the persistence 

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