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122. ARCHOSARGUS PROBATOCEPHALUS. 
(Sheepshead; Sargo Raiado.) 
Sparus Sheepshead, Schipf, ‘‘Schriften der Gesellsch. Natf. Freunde, vii, 152,” 1788 
(New York). 
Sparus probatocephalus Walbaum, Artedi, Pisc., 295, 1792 (based on Schépf). 
Archosargus probatocephalus, Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast North America, 27, 1873; 
Uhler & Lugger, Fishes of Maryland, 103, 1874 (Maryland); Jordan & 
Gilbert, Proc. U.S. N. M. 1878, 379 (Beaufort); Goode & Bean, Proc. U.S. 
N. M. 1879, 183 (Pensacola); Jordan, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1880, 22 (St. Johns 
River); Bean, Proc. U.S. N. M. 1880, 95 (St. Johns River); Goode & Bean, 
Proc. U.S. N. M. 1885, 208; Eigenmann & Hughes, loc. cit., 1887, 68. 
Diplodus probatocephalus, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U.S. N. M. 1882, 278 (Pensacola) ; 
Jordan & Gilbert, Proc.U.S. N. M. 1882, 605 (Charleston) ; Jordan & Gilbert, 
Syn. Fish. North America, 558, 1883; Bean, Internat. Fish. Exhib. London, 
57, 1883 (Matanzas River Inlet, Florida); Jordan, Proc. U.S. N. M. 1884, 
128 (Key West); Jordan & Swain, Proe. U.S. N. M. 1884, 232 (Cedar Keys) ; 
Jordan & Meek, Proc. U.S. N. M. 1884, 237 (Jacksonville, Fla.); Henshall, 
- Florida, 239, 1884 (east and west coast, Florida Keys); Jordan, Cat. Fish. 
N. A., 91, No. 1066, 1885; Gill, Standard Nat. Hist., 111, 220, fig. 125, 1885; 
Goode, Hist. Aquat. Animals, 381, plates 180 and 131, 1886; Jordan, Proc. 
U.S. N. M. 1886, 27 (Beaufort, N. C.). 
Sparus ovicephalus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 280, 1801 (based on Schépf). 
Sargus ovicephalus, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1860, 20 (name only); Gill, Cat. 
Fish. East Coast, 31, 1861 (name only). 
Sargus ovis, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y.,1, 392, plate 2, fig. 5, 1814 (New 
York); Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v1, 53, 1830 (New Orleans); DeKay, 
Fishes, New York, 89, pl. 8, fig. 23, 1842 (New York); Storer, Synopsis 
Fishes North America, 332, 1846 (copied); Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 
I, 447, 1859 (North America); Holbrook, ‘‘Ichth. S. Carolina, 54, plate 8, 
fig. 2,” 1860 (South Carolina); Storer, Fishes Mass., 126, plate 10, fig. 1, 
1867 (New Bedford). 
Habitat: Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States; Cape Cod 
to Florida Keys and Texas. 
Etymology: zpéfatov, sheep; xegad7, head. 
The numerous specimens examined by us are chiefly from Florida. 
The species is one of the most common and most valuable of the food- 
fishes of our Atlantic coast. 
123. ARCHOSARGUS ARIES. 
Sargus aries Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v1, 58, 1830 (Rio Janeiro, Maracaibo) ; 
Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 1, 449, 1859 (copied); Giinther, Fishes 
Cent. America, 386, 1864 (Belize). 
Archosargus probatocephalus aries Eigenmann & Hughes, 1. ¢., 1887, 69. 
Etymology: Aries, the ram. 
This species is unknown to us except through the published descrip- 
tions above referred to, and through the manuscript notes of Dr. Jor- 
dan on the type of Cuv. & Val. It would appear to be closely allied to 
D. probatocephalus, distinguishable only by the slightly narrower teeth 
and possibly larger scales. It is probably to be regarded as a geo- 
graphical variety or southern representative of the common sheepshead. 
