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MEASUREMENTS 



Inches- 

 Length, including caudal 33 14 



Length to end of middle caudal rays 30 % 



Length of external caudal lobes from pit 7 



Length of middle caudal rays 2 



Greatest depth of body 6% 



Least depth of caudal peduncle iy& 



Greatest thickness of body 4 



Length of head 8 



Length of upper jaw 3 V 2 



Width across end of maxilla 1 %. 



Length of mandible 4 % 



Length of snout 2% 



Diameter of eye 1 % 



Diameter of pupil % 



Distance from snout to vertical from first dorsal origin HHi 



Length of first dorsal base 3% 



Length of first spine % 



Length of second spine 1% 



Length of third (longest) spine 1% 



, Length of seventh spine 14 



Distance from snout to second dorsal (obliquely) 3414 



Length of second dorsal base 11% 



Length of second ray of second dorsal 3% 



Length of first ray '. . . 1% 



Length of last ray 1% 



Length of pectoral 3% 



Length of ventral 4 % 



Distance from ventral origin to anal origin 10^ 



Distance from vent to anal origin 2 



The amber jack here mentioned is supposed to be identical 

 with the S. 1 a 1 a n d i of Cuvier & Valenciennes, a species 

 ranging regularly from Brazil to West Florida and occasionally 

 northward in summer to Cape Cod. It grows to the length of 

 5 or 6 feet and the weight of 100 pounds, and it is a good food 

 fish as well as a robust and vigorous prize for the angler. 



Genus ELAGATIS Bennett 



Body long and slender; second dorsal and anal long, each with 

 one detached finlet composed of two rays behind the rest of the 

 fin. Otherwise essentially as in S e r i o 1 a . The short spines 

 preceding the anal fin are somewhat remote from the rest of 

 the fin, Branchiostegals 7; lateral line not armed; villiform 

 teeth in bands in the jaw, on the vomer and the palatines. 



