12 



XLL— BELONID.*:. 

 BELONE, Cnv. 



?). LOXOIROSTRIS. 



Tile Silver Gar, Banded Gar-Fish or Sea-Snipe. 



l>ocly mucli eloii«.';iited; covcrcMl with small, transjiarent. 

 roundish scales. Head and opeveles trigonal, Hat above. 

 U))per niandilde dattened ;it its base, rounded ibrward, ternd- 

 uating in an acute ti[). Both mandibles furnished with long, 

 conic, sharp, distant teeth, with smallei' ones between. Ujjper 

 ])art of l)ody trans])areut sea-green. Side of head and body 

 l)riglit silvery, abdonuui o|)a({Ue white. A narroAV green band 

 I'uns from tlie opercle to tin tail, senai-ating tlie color of the 

 back from that of the .sides. 



Fin-rays: — I). U\: V. 12; V. (J: A. I!): 0. 11>^ 



]]. frnncafd, Lesutuir, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc, Philad., II. 

 1821, p. ]2(), with a plate; Storer, Keport Massach . Fish, p. 

 1)8; DeKay, Noav York Fauna, Fish, p. 227, pi. 35, fig. 112; 

 Cnv. c^' A'al., XVIII. p. 422; Guenther VI. p. 244. 



— .scrutator, Girard, Proc. Ac. Jsat. fSc, IMiilad., 1858, p. 

 170, and U. S. ^ Mex. Bound. Survey, Jchth. p. :5(), pi. 1:5. 



Esox Jmir/irns-tris, ]\Iitch. Amer. Month Mag., II. 1817, p. 

 ;522. 



Common in all the i)rackish waters of Ohesaj)eake Bay and 

 its vicinity. It is brought to the nuirkets, but seems not to 

 be very highly esteemed. 



Acad. Coll. S. I. 



