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water, and Dr. Charles C. Abbott tells me it has been taken on a 
hook and line at Trenton. It is most too small to be of any value 
as a food-fish. At Cape May and other points along our coast it 
is known as hog choker, for the reason that it bends up and 
resists the attempt of the hog to swallow it. This is further 
augmented by the nature of the scales and small bones sticking 
in the devourer’s teeth and gullet. I have a small example taken 
from the gullet of a fish duck (Merganser americanus), which 
was killed near Atlantic City several years ago. My examples 
from Cape May, Sea Isle City and Atlantic City. 
Achirus fasciatus Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 
363.—E.. Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. N. Y., IX, 1897, p. 49. 
Achirus mollis Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 
350.—Bean, Bull U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 134. 
Grammichthys lineatus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 820. 
Sub-Order JUGULARES. 
The Jugular Fishes. 
These, together with the next sub-order, include forms with 
jugular ventrals among spiny-rayed fishes. 
Key to the families. 
a. Fin-spines present. 
b. Head cuboid; mouth almost vertical; lips fringed. URANOSCOPIDAS 
bb. Head compressed; mouth inclined or low; lips rarely fringed. 
c. Teeth not developed as coarse molars. BLENNIIDA 
cc. Teeth developed as coarse molars on vomer, palatines and sides 
of mandible. ANARHICHADIDAY 
aa. No fin-spines. 
d. Vertical fins confluent with caudal. 
e. Ventrals jugular, well behind eye, never filamentous. 
ZOARCIDAS 
ee. Ventrals developed as slender filaments on throat close 
under eye. OPHIDIIDA) 
dd. Caudal distinct from vertical fins. AM MODYTIDA 
Family URANOSCOPID. 
The Star Gazers. 
Body elongate, conic, subcompressed, widest, and deepest at 
occiput. Head large, broad. Eyes small, on anterior and upper 
