

Slorer's Si/nopsis of the Fishes of North Jmerica. 67 



GENUS II. CORVINA, Civ. 

 Have neither canine teclh nor barbels ; all their teeth are even. They also 

 differ from the Otolithi in the thickness and strength of iheir second anal spine. 

 Teeth generally even, velvet-like on the jaws ; but with a series of teeth 

 larger, pointed, and equal on the upper. 



1. Corvina oscula, Lesueur. 



The color on the head, snout, and caudal fin is of a bluish gray, tending to black upon 

 the snout and above the eyes, more gray towards I he back and above the pectorals ; all the 

 other fins are of a lighter gray ; some red tints upon the cheeks ; a yellowish reflection 

 upon the scales of the back of the tail and of the opercula ; abdomen beneath the throat 

 white. Anterior profile sloping, somewhat concave. Snout prominent and rounded. 



D.9-30. P. 19. V. 1-5. A. 2-7. C. 18, 5-5. Length, 16 inches. 



Lake Erie, Lesueur. Lake Ontario, Dekay. Ohio River, Kirti.and. jLo.^ Ck<k>« P Uaw. V"^^ 



Amplodon grunniens, Rap., [chth. Obien., p. - 



Sciosoai I rourn. Acad Nat. Sc., n. p. 252, pi. 13. 



I I rb de Lesueur, Corvina oscula, Cuv el V.u. , v. p 98. 



lla, ] iM, Rich., Fauna Boreal. AmeriC , in p. 68. 



Scixna oscula, Kir rust's Reporl on ihe Zdol. of Ohio, pp. 16 , 192, 

 Scia?na grisea, Lesueur, Journ, Acad Nat Sc., n p. 254. 



" " hi . n ' Report, p. 76. 

 Scia?na oscula, White Perch of the Ohio Kivcr, Kirtland, Bost. Joum. Nat Hist., in. p. 350, pi. 11, fig. 3. 

 Corvina oscula, Lake Sheep head, Dekay's Report, p. 73, pi. 21, B 



2. Corvina ocellata, Cuv. 



Bluish above, lighter beneath. Upon the upper part of the tail, on each side, is a black 

 spot, about three quarters of an inch in diameter, resembling the brand of a hot iron upon 

 wood; whence it has been called the B r and al Brum. Sometimes two spots on one side, 

 which are confluent on the other. 



D. 10 or 11, 1 -25 or 26. P. 17. V. 1-5. A. 2-7or8. C. 17. Length, 3 feet or 

 more. 



New York, Mitchill. South Carolina, Linnjeus. Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. 

 Lesueur. 



Called, at Charleston, S. C , "Bass," "Sea Bass," "Red Bass"; at New Orleans. 

 " Red-fish." 



Perca ocellata, Ocellated Perch, Lin,, Sys. Nat. 



" " SH WV : (iiii Z08I , IV I>. 550. 



mi imberbis, Beardless Drum, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., i, p. Ill 

 Le Johnius ocelle ou bml6, Corvina ocellata, Cm el Vajl., v. p. L34, pi. 108. 

 Corvina ocellata, Branded Corvina, Dekay's Report, p. 75, pi. 21, I 



3. Corvina argyroleuca, Cuv. 

 The whole complexion whitish. The white of the back relieved by pale blown scales, 



