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This specimen is known to us from several specimens in the U.S. 
National Museum, from different points in the West Indies, and from 
the types of H. bonariense and H. canna Cuy. & Val. in the museum at 
Paris. Two specimens sent by Poey from Havana are in the museum 
at Cambridge. One of these (10576) is the type of Hamulon notatum 
Poey. It is closely allied to HZ. parra, differing in the color, in the 
larger size of the scales and the differences in their arrangement, and 
in the longer snout and smaller mouth. 
The synonymy of this species and the next is badly entangled, and 
we are not sure that we have correctly distributed it all. Our fish 
seems to correspond to the Haemulon notatum, continuum, and retrocur- 
rens of Poey. The other names of Poey (acutum, albidum, and serratum) 
seem to refer rather to the next species. The name H. canna, having 
been first used for H. parra, should give place to Hamulon bonariense. 
37. H4|MULON PARRA. 
(Sailor's Choice; Ronco Blanco; Ronco Prieto; Bastard Margaret.) 
Hemulon caudimacula Cuvier, Régne Animal, ed. 2, 1829 (on Uribaco Marcgrave and 
Diabase de Parra Desmarest); Cuv. & Val, v, 236, 1830 (Bahia, Cuba); 
Giinther, 1, 1859, 313 (copied); Poey, Repertorio, 1, 1867, 310; Jordan & Gil- 
‘bert, Bull. U.S. F. C. 1881, 322 (redescription of original type). 
Hemulon canna Agassiz, Spix, Pisce. Brasil., 1829, p. 130, pl. 69 (not of Cuv. & Val.) 
(Brazil). 
Hemulon chromis (Broussonet Mss.) Cuv. & Val., Vv, 242, 1830 (Jamaica); Giinther, Cat. 
Fish. Brit. Mus., 1, 310 (Bahia, Jamaica). 
Diabasis chromis, Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, 924 (Garden Key) ; Bean, Cat. 
Fish. Exh. London, 1883, 58 (Garden Key). 
Diabasis parra Desmarest, Prem. Décade Ichthyol., 30, tab. 2, f. 2, 1823 (Havana). 
Hemuton parra, Jordan, |. ¢., 1889, 648 (St. Lucia); Jordan, 1. c., 1890, 319 (Bahia). 
Hemulon acutum Poey, Memorias de Cuba, u, 180, 354, 1860 (Cuba); Poey, Synopsis, 
315, 1868; Poey, Enumeratio, 45, 1875; Bean & Dresel, Proc. U.S. N. M. 1884, 
; 158 (Jamaica); Jordan & Swain, 1. ¢., 294. 
Hemulon albidum Poey, Memorias, 11, 181, 1860 (Cuba); Poey, Synopsis, 316; Poey, 
Enumeratio, 46. 
Hamulon serratum Poey, Memorias, 11, 181, 1860 (Cuba); Poey, Synopsis, 317; Poey, 
Enumeratio, 46; Poey, Anal. Hist. Nat. Madrid, 1881, 201 (Puerto Rico). 
Anarmostus serratus, Putnam, Bull. M.C. Z., 12, 1863 (name only). 
Hemulon parre, Jordan, Bull. U.S. F.C. 1884; Jordan, Proc. U.S. N. M., 1884, 126 (Key 
West). rs 
Hemulon parre Castelnau, Anim. Nouv. ou Rar. Amer. du Sud, 10, 1855 (Bahia). 
? Hemulon brevirostrum Giinther, Fishes Centr. Amer., 1869, 419 (in part, specimen 
from Puerto Cabello). 
Habitat: West Indies; southern Florida to Brazil. 
Etymology: Named for Don Antonio Parra, who first wrote on the 
natural history of Cuba. 
This species is common at Key West, where it is known as ‘‘sailor’s 
choice.” It is not very often brought into the market, on account of 
its rather small size. The young are abundant along the shores, in 
number inferior only to H. plumieri and H. rimator. At Havana it is 
still more common, being brought into the market in large numbers 
