118 



Homoprlon xauthurn.s, llolbr, Iclitli. fS. Car. }). 164, pi. 

 3, fig. 2. 



Sciama xanthnrus, (Tueiith. Jl }). 288. 



Common in tlie lower Potomac, in the soutiiern part of 

 Chesapeake Bay, and in Sinepuxent Bay. 



In Worce«ter county it is called ''White Perch."' 



It has liahits similar to the Lioslomus (tbli((iui.-s, and is 

 taken with the same kind ofhait, 



Acad. Coll. 



2. L. OULlQUUff. 



Tlie Croaker, or Spot. 



(Similar in shape to the preceding, hut much more arched 

 above, and nearly straight below. The head is large, com- 

 pressed at the sides, full, rounded above and in front, and 

 covered with scales. There are two dorsal tins, though con- 

 nected by a membrane slightly elevated. Body above lightest 

 silver-gray, with a golde.i tint; fourteen or more dusky bars 

 descend obliquely on the sides from the margin of the back, 

 and disappear below the lateral liui' a roundish spot above 

 the pectoral tins; sides and belly yellowish. 



Fin-rays:- D. 10. 1. oO: \\ 18: V. 1,5: A. 2, 12: C. l8. 



Muf^U obliquus, Mitch, Trans. Lit. & Phil, Soc, New York, 



I p, 4U5. 



Scki'na )unltifo.sclii,la, Lesueur, Mem. Aca. Nat. Sc. Philad. 



II p. 225. 



Jjeiosioimin luiiKfrulis. (Juv, & \'al. I p. Ml, pi. 110. 



— obUqiiun, DeKay, New York Fauna, Fish., p. t;!», pi. (iO, 

 fig. 195; Ilolbr. Ichth. S. Car. p. KiO, pi. 23 lig. 1. 



h'ckena ohUqiia, Gueiither, II p. 288. 



The Croaker or Sjjot is (•oniujou in manv of the l)rackish 

 and salt waters of the estuaries (if Chesapeake Bay. in the 

 vicinity of Norfolk and on the southern })art of the Eastern 

 Shore it is esteemed as the choicest of the india;enous iisli. 



