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species, "Elops Saurus." Common name: "Big-eyed Herring," 

 and not calling it the Lady-fish. 



Jordan & Evermann of the same commission, in 1896, produced 

 Bulletin 47 of the U. S. National Museum, in which they classify 

 the fish in "Family Elopidas (the Tarpons)," under species, 

 "Elops Saurus." Common names: Ten-pounder, John-Mariggle, 

 Bony-fish, Big-eyed Herring, Matajuelo Real, Chiro, Lisa Francesa. 

 The illustration is of the Lady-fish as known in Florida, but it is not 

 called the Lady-fish anywhere in the book. 



Jordan & Gilbert, in Bulletin 16, have "Family Albulidae (the 

 Lady-fish)," Species: " Albula Vulpes ; common name, Lady fish, 

 Bonefish. ' ' 



Jordan & Evermann, in Bulletin 47, have " Family Albulidae (the 

 Lady-fishes)," the illustration being the Bonefish of Biscayne Bay and 

 the Keys. Common names : Lady-fish, Bonefish, Macabi, Sanducha, 

 Banana-fish. 



These citations show plainly the source of the confusion which has 

 existed regarding the correct scientific and common names of these 

 two fishes. The people of Florida and the sportsmen, who have paid 

 any attention to the subject, thought their Lady-fish was the true 

 Lady-fish, so when the scientific men mentioned a fish of that name 

 they took it to be the one they had known by the same name. I 

 naturally fell into the same error, taking, so to speak, the Lady-fish I 

 had seen and caught as my basis or "premise" in the discussion. 

 The scientific people have been right all the time, and others differing 

 with them, myself included, have been in error all the time. 



As I desire to exhaust the subject as well as I possibly can, and in 

 the interest of my readers who desire to read the authorities I have 

 consulted, I give below quotations in full of such authorities, and place 

 above, my caption to this article the illustration (reproduced from 

 Bulletin 47) of the " Albula Vulpes, " the Lady-fish and Bonefish of the 

 text books, and the Bonefish of Biscayne Bay and the Keys ; as also 

 of the "Elops Saurus," Ten-pounder, Big-eyed Herring, Bony-fish, 

 etc., of the text books; and the Lady-fish, Bonefish, and Skipjack of 

 the sportsmen and market fishermen of Florida. 



