PACIFIC COAST FISHES. 



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5. Sehasiomus auriculatus. 



Moderately common. 



6. Sebastomus ruber. 



Not rare ; sometimes reaching a weight of twenty-five pounds 

 or more. 



7. Sebasiomus oculatus. 



Not rare ; weighs from one to four pounds ; readily distin- 

 guished by several oblong pink spots on each side of the 

 back. 



8. Sebasiomus elongatus. 



Rather rare ; small. 



9. Sebasiomus variabilis. 



An Alaskan species, 

 zo. Sebasiosomus simulans. 

 Oregon. 



JT. Sebdsiosomus-pinniger. 



Quite common ; distinguished by its long pectoral fins. 

 X2. Sebasiosomus ovalis. 

 Very rare. 



13. Sebasiosomus Jlaridus. 



Not uncommon. 



14. Sebasiosomus melanops. 



Very common, and highly esteemed as food. 



15. Sebastodes paucispinis. 



Not common. 



LABRID^. 

 Red-Fish ; Black-Fish ; sheepshead. — Pimelometopon pulcher. — Gill. 



This fish is the nearest Califomian relation of the Eastern Tau- 

 tog and Cunner, although very different in many structural charac- 

 ters. It was formerly brought to the San Francisco market, from 

 August to February, from the South, but is nowr rather uncommon. 



EMBIOTOCID^. 

 J The fishes of this family are remarkable for their viviparity. 

 Externally they may be said to be somewhat intermediate in ap- 

 pearance, as they are in structure, between the Labrids and the 

 Sparids, but they are readily recognizable and distinguished from 

 all others by a band of scales at the base of the soft dorsal which 

 becomes broader forwards, and is separated from the others by a 



