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several more salt-water trout, a few red fishes or channel bass, some 

 ravallia or snooks of from three to ten pounds, some crevalle of three 

 or four, and, finally, a Bone-fish of about three pounds, which gave 

 more real sport than any of the others. The Bone-fish or Lady-fish, 

 as it is sometimes called, is a slender, silvery fish, and fights in the 

 water and in the air like the black bass, but mostly in the air — Sil- 

 ver Shuttle.' 



" The species is found in some numbers in San Diego Bay, on the 

 coast of California, where it is taken with the mullet. On account of 

 its beautiful color, it sells readily, but is not especially esteemed as 

 a tables fish." 



NOTE BY GREGG. 

 Goode and Henshall here must refer to the Lady-fish of the Florida fishermen. 

 Henshall says it is a " slender fish," which the Bone-fish of Biscayne Bay is not. 

 Only one or two "stragglers" of the latter have been taken at Indian River Inlet, 

 and they do not " fight in the air," but keep under water. They had not been taken 

 with rod and reel when Hensall wrote above, and they do not range to Cape Cod, 

 except as occasional stragglers. 



U. S. FISH COMMISSION REPORT OF 1895. 



Jordan & Evermann's Check List of Fishes of North and Middle 

 America. 



" Genus 199. Elops Linnaeus." 

 Page 279. No illustration. 



" Elops. Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. XII, 518, 1766 (sai/rus). 



"687. Elops saunis, Linnaeus. Ten-pounder; John-Mariggle ; 

 Bony-fish ; Bone-fish ; Big-eyed Herring ; Matajuelo Real ; Lina 

 Francesa. Tropical seas ; common north to the Gulf of California 

 and to Long Island on the Atlantic Coast. 



" Elops saurus. Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. XII, 518, 1766, Car- 

 olina." 



"Family LVII. Albulidse." 

 "(The Lady-fishes.)" 

 Same work, page 280. No illustration. 



"Genus 200. Albula (Gronow). Bloch & Schneider. Albula 

 Gronow, Zoophyl., 162, 1763 (nonbinomial)." 



"688. Albula vulpes (Linnaeus). Lady-fish; Bone-fish; Ma- 

 cabi ; Banana-fish. 



