ON THE EAST COAST OF FLORIDA. 



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Bream (salt water) ; 

 Pinkish ; 

 Sailor's Choice ; 

 Chopa Spina. 



109. "LAGODON RHOMBOIDES." 



"Head Z\\ depth 2 to 2 



Illustration. 



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eye 4. D. 

 XII, 11; A. Ill, 11; scales 10-65 to 70-17. 

 Body elongate, elliptical ; head flattened, muz- 

 zle pointed, profile not very steep ; eye moder- 

 ate ; \yi to \y 2 snout; 1 in interorbital ; mouth moderate, maxil- 

 lary not reaching front of orbit, 3^3 in head ; incisors -}, all deeply 

 notched ; molars in two series in each jaw ; gill rakers 6 + 13 ; dorsal 

 spines all rather high, the highest about 2 in head ; caudal deeply 

 forked ; second anal spine not longer than third ; ventrals short and 

 broad, pectorals moderate, upper rays reaching past origin of anal. 

 Color, in life, olivacious, the sides bluish silvery ; a humeral spot 

 and traces of 6 vertical bars; gilt stripes much less intense than in 

 Archosargus unimaculatus , much broader than the interspaces ; about 

 7 stripes below the lateral line, those above it more or less confluent ; 

 dorsal fin pale bluish, with a submedian gilt band and a gilt edging ; 

 caudal yellow, faintly barred ; anal bluish, with a medium yellowish 

 band ; ventrals mesially yellowish ; pectorals plain. Length, 6 

 inches. ' ' Weight, 2 pounds ; average, % pound. 



Caught in Halifax and Indian Rivers, Lake Worth Inlet, Biscayne 

 Bay, and all the way to Key West, in the passes, channels and cuts, 

 with rod and reel, or hand line, No. 6 or 9 line, No. 1$, 2$, to 3$ 



