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Ledge, at the entrance to Hamilton Harbor, is marked by a pyramid of 

 stone, called the " Hog-fish Beacon," which is surmounted by a huge 

 iron image of a Hog-fish. 



The long streamer-like appendages or continuations of the vertical 

 ijns give to the Hog-fish as it swims a singularly graceful appearance. 

 The beauty of those exposed in the market is frequently marred, how- 

 ever, by having had these ornaments bitten off by the craw-fish and 

 lobsters confined with them in the wells of the boats. 



The Hog-fish attains the weight of twenty pounds, and is among the 

 choicest of table-fish; its hard, white, exquisitely-flavored flesh has 

 never been found injurious here, though in some parts of the West 

 Indies it is regarded with suspicion. The common name refers to the 

 swine-like profile and dentition. 



HAEPE EUFUS, {Linne) Gill. 

 , Spanish Lady-fish. 



Fudiano vermellio, Marcgrave, Hist. &c., Brasil, iv, 1648, 145. 



Tardus flavus (Hog-fisb), Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carol. Florida and the Bahama Islands, 



ii, 1743, 11, tab. xi, f. 1. 

 Ldbrus rufus, Linne, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1, 1758, 284 ; ed. 12, 1, 1766, 475. — Gmelin, Liiin6, 



Syst. Nat. 1, 1788, 1287.— Schneider, Bloch, Syst. Ichth. 1801, 244.— Lacepede, 



Hist. Nat. Poiss. iii, 1803, 427. 

 Cossyphus rufus, Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. iv, 1862, 108. — Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. 



Soc. Phila. 1870, 463. 

 Harpe rufus, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1863, p. 222. 

 Bodianus rufus, Poey, Kep. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, 331. 



Perro Colorado, Parra, Descr. Dif. Piez. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1787, 3, lam. iii, fig. 1. 

 Bodianus bodianus, Bloch, Ichth. vii, 1797, 24, tab. ccxsiii. 

 Cossyphus iodianus, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. xiii, 1839, 103. 

 Lutjanus verres, Bloch, op. cit. tab. cclv. 

 Sparus verres, SiiAW, Gen. Zool. iv, 1803, 414. 

 Cossyphus verres, Castelnau, Anim. Nouv. ou Eares, Am^rigue du Sud, Ichth, 



1855, 27. 

 Sparus falcaius, Block, op. cit. tab. cclviii. 

 Bodianus BlocMi, Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv, 1803, 279, 290. 

 Harpe coeruleo-aureus, LacepJide, op. cit. 426, 427, tab. viii. fig. 2. 

 Lalrus semiruber, LACiBPi^DE, op. cit. iii, 428. 



Not common. The species is also recorded from various of the West 

 India Islands, the Gulf of Mexico, Bahia, Eio de Janeiro, and Saint Hel- 

 ena. Closely-related species are known in the Spanish and French An- 

 tilles under the names "Doncella" and " Demoiselle," and the Bermu- 



