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dark brown, with small closely set specks of blue. All other 
parts, including whole of tail, pure white. The blue speckling is 
apparent on the white portions also when examined closely. This 
phase is shown in the photographic plate opposite page 382 in 
American Food and Game Fishes, but the tail is black. 
In another phase the white invades the upper dark third, leav- 
ing about four dark blotches across back and dorsal, with irregu- 
lar dark lines on head. 
In a common swimming color the entire body is dark reddish 
brown, everywhere minutely speckled with intense blue. 
A fourth phase shows upper and lower thirds of the body dark, 
the median third pure white. Blue dots indistinct. 
In a fifth phase (in the photographic tank) the fish becomes 
a pale gray with the body dark blotched and the blue specks dis- 
tinct. 
The coney presents still other aspects of coloration, but the 
heavy blotches never appear except on a frightened fish, in the 
photographic tank. 
Hocrisu, (Lachnolaimus maximus). Three principal phases: 
Dark brown phase: Uniform pale reddish brown, whole front 
of head rich brown, a band of the same across base of the tail. A 
narrow band of this color extends also along the back at base of 
dorsal (fig. 1, plate 10). 
Mottled phase: In the mottled phase there are equal amounts 
of reddish brown and pale white, both tints showing as nearly 
vertical bands on fins as well as body. When the fish is frightened 
the pale and brown mottling always appears, showing apparently 
a hiding color, with the fish usually in a corner of the tank and 
close against the rockwork (fig. 2, plate 10). 
Phase 3: Whole body pale and colorless, only faint outlines 
of the brown marks showing. 
TriGGER-FIsH, ( Balistes carolinensis). Your phases. 
1. Sides and upper parts and all fins uniformly covered with 
fine bluish reticulations. Under surfaces white, upper dark. 
2. Uniformly pale, with a yellowish cast. 
3. Pale white, with broad, irregular, vertical bands on upper 
body, these sometimes forming black blotches close to dorsal (fig. 
i, plate ws). 
4. Uniformly dusky, bluish reticulations sometimes appearing 
faintly. This is fairly well shown in (fig. 2, plate 11). 
Jott-Hrap Porcy, (Calamus bajonado). Three common 
phases: 
1. Uniformly dusky, unmarked. 
