



Catalogue of the Fishes of Connecticut. 63 



*46. Palinurus perciformis, Dekay, Black Pilot Fish, Ston- 

 ington. 



*47. Naucrates Novebpracensis, Cw., New York Pilot Fish, 

 Stonington. 



*48. Caranx crysos, Mitchill, Yellow Mackerel, Long Island 

 Sound. 



*49. Caranx punctatus, Cuv., Spotted Caranx, East Haven. 



*50. Temnodon saltator, Cuv., Blue Fish, very common. 



*51. Blepharis crinitus, Ackerly, Hair-finned Dory, Stratford. 



*52. Argyreiosus capillaris, Mitchill, Hair-finned Argyreiosus, 

 Greenwich. 



*53. Argyreiosus vomer, Lacepede, Rostrated Dory, Stratford. 



*54. Vomer setapinnis, Mitchill, (Brownii, Cuv. and Dekay,) 



Bristly Dory, Long Island Sound. 



4b. This is what Dr. Storer in his report denominated Trachinotus argentcus. 

 but subsequently preferred the above name of Dr. Dekay's. 



47. Several individuals of the New York pilot-fish , which is the Scomber ductor 

 w Mitchill, were taken in Stonington, in 1842. 



48. As the yelloio mackerel is abundant at New York, it can hardly be possible it 



°es not inhabit our Sound, though I am not aware of its having been taken here. 



J> The spotted caranx, Mr. Mitchell informs me, he caught last spring at East 

 Haven, in a seine. 



° • Ihe blue fish is very remarkable on account of the monstrous parasite, 

 ymothoa, (a species which is I believe undescribed,) that inhabits its mouth, I 

 e aken m any of these parasites ; the longest was 1 and 9 tenth inches in length ; 

 dually about 1! inches long, and from £ to i inch wide. 



Anis beautiful and most curiously constructed fish was seen for a half hour, 



f JJ evcral gentlemen j n 1842, in Mr. Cook's tide mill-pond, which divides Strat- 



rom Bridgeport, but all means failed to capture it. It was particularly noti- 



>at the long dorsal and anal rays remained perfectly quiet, while the tail or 



*™ . f,n was instantly flapping between them, to give the fish his gentle mo- 



tu \ ln vario "s circular movements, as apparently to evade all attempts to cap- 



e ,rn - Dr. Dekay remarks, that the only one ever observed, was obtained from 



^ 0n g Island Sound, (which was discovered by Dr. Ackerly, as published in the 



°^mal of Science, Vol. II, page 144.) Of course this is the second. I am in- 



th n ° ne °* ! * le g ent ' emen wno saw il d u" n g lts wno,c rime of appearance, 

 * r> Okay's figure is a very perfect representation. 

 ° fc • The Argyreiosus was taken in a gill-net, in 1842, by an old fisherman, at 

 •reenwich, Conn., as he recently informed me, of the correctness of which, I en- 

 ,er ^n not the least doubt. 



°' • The rostrated dory was taken in this town a few years since, in a seine set 



»er fishes, by Mr. A. Curtis. Length of fish about 3 or 4 inches. It was pre- 



' a m alcohol that unfortunately was too strong, and it was destroyed. 



i V ° **"**% dorrj was taken by Mr. Ayres, in Long Island Sound, (L. I.) It 



md of cosmopolite, and doubtless we have a claim to its habitat on this shore 



also. 



