Game Fishes of the Colonies 401 
now known as the perro perro, and often ignomin- 
iously caught in pots, and there are a host of 
bait-eaters, as doncella, a beautiful little parrot- 
fish, cheetodonts, and many more. The Porto 
Rican waters abound in parrot-fishes, found on the 
coral reef, the cotoro verde, loro colorado, and vieja 
colorado being particularly common, some attain- 
ing a weight of twenty pounds or more. Among 
them is found the familiar spadefish, here known 
as paguala, tipping the scales from eight to 
twenty pounds. The tarpon is a very common 
fish about Porto Rico, but I cannot learn that 
any one has ever taken it there for sport, and as 
the flesh is very poor there is no incentive for the 
local fishermen to catch the sabalo, as it is some- 
times called. Barton W. Evermann, who is the 
authority on the fishes of Porto Rico, and who 
has made an elaborate and valuable report to the 
government on the subject, entitled General Re- 
port on the Investigations in Porto Rico of the 
United States Fish Commission Steamer /7sh 
Hawk, in 1889, made some interesting discoveries 
at Hucares relating to the young of the tarpon, 
finding several young fishes ranging from two to 
seven inches in length at the former place and at 
Fajardo. I have made many attempts to learn 
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