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not depressed above eyes ; head long, the snout prominent, convex. Mouth 

 rather large, nearly horizontal, the maxillary reaching to front of eye, 3 

 in head ; outer teeth above enlarged ; eye 2 in snout, 5 in head, rather 

 less than interorbital width. Preopercle strongly serrate along its whole 

 posterior margin, the spines near angle diverging; dorsals nearly sepa- 

 rate, the first high, the third spine 3 in head ; pectorals moderate, nearly 

 reaching tips of ventrals; ventrals filamentous; anal inserted nearly 

 under middle of second dorsal, the second spine rather weak, shorter than 

 snout, length of head; caudal double truncate, 12 in head; 16 scales 

 in an oblique series from vent to lateral line, 12 in an oblique series from 

 dorsal to lateral line. Gill rakers slender, very short, 7+16; cceca 8. 

 Color brassy, paler below ; middle part of the body with short, irregular 

 dusky vertical bars crossing the lateral line ; many dark brown spots on 

 side of back, irregularly placed, and not forming continuous streaks along 

 the rows of scales ; usually some of these coalesce to form 2 dark streaks 

 procurrent with the back. Length 12 inches. South Atlantic and Gulf 

 coasts of the United States ; Cape Cod to Texas ; generally common along 

 our Atlantic coast, becoming very abundant southward, but not known 

 to extend into the West Indies ; a food-fish of some importance. This or 

 a similar species (Micropogon opercularis, Cuvier & Valenciennes) is very 

 common on the sand shores of Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina, (undulatus, 

 waved.) 



Perca undulata, LINNAEUS, Syst.Nat., Ed.xn, 483, 1766, South Carolina. 



Scicena croker, LACEPEDE. Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 309, 314, 316, 1802, Carolina. 



Eodianus co&tatus, MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. New York 1815, 417, New York. 



Micropogon lineatus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 215, pi. 119, 1830, New 



York. (Coll. Milbert.) 

 Micropogon undulatus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 219, 1830; GIRARD, 



U.S. and Mex. Bound. Survey, 13, pi. 12, 1859; GUNTHER, Cat., n, 271, 1860 (in part); 



JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 575, 1883; JORDAN & EIGENMANN, I. c., 418, pi. 7. 

 Micropogon costatus, DEKAY, New York Fauna : Fishes, 83, pi. 72, fig. 230, 1842. 



1844. MICROPOGON FURNIERI (Desmarest) . 



(VERRDGATO; WHITE-MOUTH DRUMMER.) 



Head 3f; depth 3 to 3f. D. X-I, 30; A. II, 7; eye 6 in head; snout 3; 

 jcales 54, 7 in a vertical series from front of dorsal to lateral line, 9 or 10 

 in an oblique series; teeth of outer series in upper jaw scarcely enlarged; 

 dark spots on hack forming continuous dark streaks nearly as wide as the 

 pale interspaces; body a little more slender than in Micropogon undulatus; 

 profile almost straight, a little depressed above the eye ; snout long ; eye 

 small, 1| in interobital area; preorbital wider than eye; maxillary 3 in 

 head, reaching front of pupil; teeth in broad, villiform bands; preopercle 

 less strongly serrate than in M. undulatus', third dorsal spine highest, If 

 in head; dorsals connected by a low membrane; spinous dorsal with a 

 sheath at its base formed by a single series of scales; soft dorsal naked; 

 second anal spine 5 in head ; scales of the breast and head cycloid. Gray- 

 ish silvery, with bright reflections ; a dark spot on opercle ; axil dusky ; 



