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species is not unusual in summer, occurring even as far north as 

 Halifax, N. S. Specimens from Annapolis, N. S., and from Salem 

 Harbor, are in the Essex Institute collection. At Provincetown, 

 according to Capt. Atwood, it is very common, and is known as the 

 *' Sheepshead." Storer had it from Boston. 



Family ZENIDJE. 



92. Zenopsis oceUatus (Storer) Gill. Dory. Zeus ocellatus 

 Storer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vi, 1858, p. 385; Putnam in Storer, 

 Hist. Fish. Mass., 1867, p. 279. Zenopsis ocellatus Gill., Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci., Fhila., vi, p. 888. A single individual was obtained at 

 Provincetown, by Capt. N. E. Atwood, which is preserved in the col- 

 lection of the Boston Society of Natural History— the only specimen 

 of the species. For 92a see p. 31. 



Family SCI^NID^. 



93. Cynoscion regalis (Block.) Gill. Squeteague, Weak-fish. 

 Otolithus regalis Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 1857, p. 44, pi. ix, fig. 1. 

 This species rarely passes to the north of Cape Cod, but, in 1878, three 

 individuals were taken in the weir at Milk Island, Cape Ann. 



94. Pogonias cromis (Linn.) Cuvier. Drum. Pogonias chromis 

 GUnther, Cat. Fishes E. Coast, N. A., ii, 1860, p. 270. One or two 

 individuals of this southern species have been observed at Province- 

 town. 



95. Menticirrusnebulosus (xVzYc/i.) G'iZZ. King-fish. Umhrina 

 nebulosa Putnam, Proc. Essex lust., i, 1856, p. 201 ; Storer, Hist. Fish. 

 Mass., 1867, p. 46, pi. ix, fig. 4. Storer records four specimens, one 

 from a lobster pot at Boston Lighthouse, taken previous to 1833 ; one 

 from Lynn, 1840 ; and two from Provincetown, July, 1846 and Nov., 

 1847, in mackerel nets. The Salem Collection includes two specimens : 

 one, eight inches loug, taken off Marblehead Light, Oct. 15, 1872, by 

 J. P. Haskell ; another, six and one-half inches long, taken at Spite 

 Bridge, Danvers, Oct. 28, 1874. No others are recorded from north 

 of Cape Cod. 



Family SPARID^. 



96. Stenotomus argyrops (Linn.) Gill. Scuppaug, Scup. 

 Pagrus argyrops Putnam, Proc. Essex Inst., i, 1856, p. 201; Storer, 

 Hist. Fish. Mass., 1867, p. 49, pi. x, fig. 3. This species, formerly, 

 rarely passed the boundary of Cape Cod; in 1878, however, thirty- 

 seven were taken at the Milk Island, Weirs, and they appear to be in- 

 creasing in abundance. 



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