ON THE EAST COAST OE FLORIDA. 



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61. "LEPOMIS PALLIDUS." 



Illustration. Page. 



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SUNFISH ; 

 Blue Bream ; 

 Blue Sunfish ; 

 Copper-nosed Bream 

 dollardee ; 

 Blue-gill ; 

 Roach Bream. 



"Head 3 (2^ to ?>%) ; depth 2 (If to 

 2%); eye 3^ to 4 in head. D. X, 11 or 12 ; 

 A. Ill, 10 to 12 ; scales 7-43 to 52-16 ; 40 to 

 50 pores ; 5 rows of scales on cheek. Body 

 comparatively short and deep, compressed ; 

 the young slender, the adult nearly orbicular. 

 Caudal peduncle rather slender. Head not 

 large, the projecting snout usually forming an angle above eye. Mouth 

 quite small, oblique, the jaws about equal, the maxillary barely 

 reaching the front of the eye. Opercular flap very short in the young; 

 in the adult rather long and wide, without pale edge. Gill rakers 

 moderately long, nearly terete, bent slightly downward, about X-f-11 

 to 13. Dorsal spines strong and high, the longest about half head, 

 usually longer than snout and eye ; ventral fins reaching anal ; 

 pectorals very long, usually longer than head, reaching past base of 

 anal spines. Olive green ; adults dark ; young more or less silvery, 

 with a purple luster in life ; sides with undulating, often chain-like, 

 transverse greenish bars, which become obsolete in the adult ; no 

 blue stripes on cheeks ; a diffuse black blotch at base of posterior 



