ON THE EAST COAST OF FLORIDA. 133 



regularly arranged, those above irregularly. Ground color olive, 

 terminal half of scales on sides yellow, side of head yellowish 

 olive, top of head dusky ; a blue ring in front of dorsal surround- 

 ing a black spot containing a few pale-blue specks ; iris yellow, 

 blue above and below, upper jaw blue-black, some yellow at 

 corner of mouth ; lower jaw, lower side of head, and breast dusky 

 olive ; a dark blue margin to opercle much broader above than be- 

 low ; upper edge of preopercular spine pale blue ; edge of dorsal fin 

 blue black, a black blotch on last rays, the fin otherwise reddish or 

 orange, becoming paler toward tip of filament ; anal similar to dorsal, 

 but darker ; caudal entirely pale orange or clear lemon yellow ; pec- 

 toral lemon yellow, the base with a brown blotch bordered anteriorly 

 by a narrow blue stripe ; ventrals lemon yellow, somewhat dusky at 

 base." 



Illustration. Page. 



139. "ANGELICHTHYS ISABELITA." 1685 



No illustration. 

 Angel-fish ; Weight to 8 pounds ; average, 2^ pounds. 



Common Angel-fish (G.). U. S. F. Commission, 1896, says to 20 

 pounds. Caught : Still, bottom fishing ; rod and reel, No. 6 line, 

 No. 6 hook with gut snood. Bait : Cut Crawfish, cut Conch, small 

 shell fish out of shell, cut fish, Fiddler Crab. The natives of the 

 Keys grain them. By many considered the handsomest fish in the 

 world. Edible, C. 



140. "BALISTES CAROLINENSIS." 632 1701 



Trigger-fish; "Head Z% ; depth \%. D. Ill, 27; A. 25; 



Leather Jacket; scales usually about 60 (55 to 63); about 35 scales 



in an oblique series from vent upward and forward. 

 Turbot 



Third dorsal spine shorter but stouter than the sec- 

 ond and remote from it ; plates on head similar to those on body ; 

 caudal lobes produced in adult ; soft dorsal high, its longest rays ele- 

 vated but not filamentous, in adult 1 ^ in head. Ventral flap large, 

 supported by several slender pungent spines, resembling fin spines. 

 Lateral line very slender, showing only as the scales begin to dry, its 

 course everywhere undulating and very crooked ; it extends from eye 

 backward to interspace between dorsals, then bends abruptly and 

 obliquely downward to opposite first third of anal, then forms a 

 V-shaped figure, returning back to level of middle of caudal peduncle, 



