26 NEW-YORK FAUNA. 
GENUS GRYSTES. Cuvier. 
Opercle spinous. Preopercle entire. A single dorsal. All the teeth uniform, velvet-like 
THE GROWLER. 
GRYSTES SALMOIDES. 
PLATE LXIX. FIG. 223. 
White Salmon. Smitu, Hist. Virginia, 
Labre salmoide. Lacrr. Vol. 4, p. 716, pl. 5, fig. 2. 
Cichla variabilis. Lesugur, Acad. Sc. as cited by Cuvier. 
Grystes salmoides, Le growler salmoide. Cuv. et VAL. Vol. 3, p. 54, pl. 45. 
Characteristics. Deep greenish brown, with a bluish spot on the point of the opercle. Young, 
with numerous longitudinal lines. Length 6 — 24 inches. 
Description. Greatest depth, to its length, as one to four nearly ; its thickness not quite 
half of its depth. Profile not very declivous. Lower jaw longest, with four or five pores 
under each of its branches. Minute teeth in broad bands. Opercle terminates in two mode- 
rate points, of which the uppermost is short. Branchial rays six, and occasionally seven; a 
notable variation, but which is positively established. Humeral bone smooth. Scales ciliate, 
moderate ; ninety in a longitudinal series, and thirty-six to forty in a vertical line. Scales 
only on the opercular bones and cheeks; small ones on the soft portions of the dorsal, anal 
and caudal fins. Lateral line concurrent with the back. Dorsal fin commences about the 
middle of the pectorals ; the fourth ray highest. Pectoral and ventral fins small. Caudal fin 
slightly crescent-shaped. 
Color, in the adult, deep greenish-brown, with a bluish-black spot on the point of the 
opercle. Young, with from twenty-five to thirty brownish longitudinal bands, which appear 
to become effaced with age. 
Length, 6°0 — 24:0. 
Kiniays, D.10.13%or 14: 9P- 16; Vion Ae ooilcor 12's °C. 17 
The above description, from Cuvier, would seem to imply the existence of two species. 
He received them from New-York, from Carolina, and from the Wabash (Indiana). Those 
from New-York varied from six to nine inches, and had six branchial and fourteen soft dorsal 
rays. The Wabash specimens varied from five to sixteen inches in length. In Carolina, it 
attains a length of two feet, is considered as excellent food, and passes under the name of 
Trout. I have seen neither the species nor the description of C. variabilis, cited by Cuvier. 
