The Leather-Jacks 



saurus), is found on both coasts of Tropical America, and is common 

 in the West Indies and along the Florida coast, ranging north to 

 New York and Lower California. It reaches a foot in length, and is a 

 very handsome fish, often leaping from the water. It is of very little 

 value as food, the flesh being dry and bony. 



The genus Naucrates contains the pilot-fish, N. diictor, which 

 differs from Seriola only in the reduction of the spinous dorsal to a 



few (4 or 5) low, disconnected spines. The pilot-fish is a pelagic 

 fish, widely distributed in the open seas. On our Atlantic Coast it is 

 found occasionally from Cape Cod to the West Indies. It reaches 2 

 feet in length. 



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