334 Storer on the 
The Caudal is lunated ; a little higher than long. 
The fin rays are D. 9. 26; P. 19; V. 5; A. 10; 
G. 43. 
Famity IV. 
SPAROIDES. 
Sarevs. Cuv. 
Generic characters. Trenchant incisors in front 
of jaws, almost similar to those of man. 
S. ovis. Mitchell. The Sheep’s Head. 
Trans. Lit. et Philosoph. Soc. v. i. p. 392. 
This species, so elaborately described and eulo- 
gized by Mitchell, is occasionally taken in our wa- 
ters south of Cape Cod. Thomas A. Greene, Esq. 
of New Bedford, informs me it is sometimes sold in 
that market. Not having met with a specimen, I 
copy the description of Mitchell: 
* With smutty face, banded sides, pale complex- 
ion, prominent eyebrows, and grooved spinous dorsal 
fin. Weighs fourteen or fifteen pounds. One that 
weighed four pounds and a half, measured twenty 
inches in length, eight in depth, and three in thick- 
ness. The form of the mouth, and a certain smut- 
tiness of the face, have a distant resemblance to the 
physiognomy of the sheep. Thence comes the 
name by which he is usually distinguished. Teeth 
covered. by the lips which are large and distinct. 
Four incisors in each jaw, and two other teeth sit- 
