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with scales or bony plates. Spinous dorsal present, short. Soft 
dorsal similar to anal, which is without spines. Caudal narrow, 
few rayed. Pectoral large, with broad base, 3 lower rays de- 
tached, forming feelers, and used chiefly in search of food, as 
when turning over stones, exploring shells, etc. Ventrals thoracic, 
wide apart, separated by a flat area, and radii I, 5. 
Singular fishes in all warm seas, some living about rocks, and 
others in deep water, where they are red in color. ‘Two species 
on our coast. 
Genus Prionotus Lacépede. 
The Gurnards. 
Key to the species. 
a. Maxillary small, 3 in head. CAROLINUS 
aa. Maxillary large, 2 to 234 in head. EVOLANS STRIGATUS 
Prionotus carolinus (Linnzus) 
Sea Robin. Pig Fish. Rock Pig Fish. Flying Fish. Spinous 
Gurnard. 
Head 32;..depth 5; D..X=13, 1; Ava2, 0) scales aboutaavae 
in a lateral series to base of caudal; pores 55 in lateral line to 
base of caudal and several more on latter; 7 scales between origin 
of rayed dorsal and lateral line; about 20 scales in a vertical 
series between origin of anal and lateral line; snout 2 in head; 
eye 534; maxillary 2°/,,; width of mouth 2%; interorbital 
space 7; preopercular spine 61%; third dorsal spine 24%; fourth 
dorsal ray 234; third anal ray 2%; least depth of caudal 
peduncle 5; caudal 1%; ventral 1%; pectoral 27% in head and 
trunk. Body slender. Head moderate. Snout long, depressed, 
truncate when viewed above with rounded edges. Eye a little 
elongate, high and a little posterior. Mouth broad, with bands 
of villiform teeth. Mandible inferior. Maxillary about three- 
fifths of space to orbit. Interorbital space rather narrow, con- 
cave. Bones of head comparatively smooth, preocular, post- 
