138 FISH HARVESTING. 
and sand. The flounder, thus disturbed, scuds 
along the bottom, and stirs up the sand like a 
trail, marking its line of progress. The sharp- 
eyed savage notes the spot where the dirt-line 
ends, paddles up to it, dashes m the spear, and, 
quick as thought, transfers the ‘ /laz’ fish from its 
fancied hiding-place to the bottom of the canoe. 
Immense numbers are taken in this manner at 
every tide. The following are the species usu- 
ally sold in the markets :— 
Pleuronectes bilineates (Platessa  bilineata, 
Ayres, in Proc. Calif. Acad., 1855, p. 40), the Two- 
lined Flatfish.— Sp. Ch.: The height of the body 
is a little less than one-half of the entire length, 
the length of the head nearly one-fourth ; snout 
somewhat projecting, not continuous in direc- 
tion with the descending profile of the nape; 
eyes on the right side large, their diameter being 
two-sevenths of the length of the head, separated 
by a strong prominent ridge, which is partly 
covered with scales; lower jaw prominent; a 
single even row of strong blunt teeth in each 
jaw, less developed on the coloured side than on 
the blind ; scales very conspicuous, those on 
the head and on the tail ciliated; lateral line 
with a strong curve above the pectoral: a second 
series of pores commences above the eye, and 
