202 AMERICAN FISHES. 
siderable quantities by hook and line, and I have known of a few being 
taken in that manner at Pensacola. ,It feeds entirely upon small shell- 
fish, which are crushed between the bones of its pharyngeal arch.”’ 
The Round Pompano, 7. rhomboides, has the height of the body con- 
tained two to two and one-third times in the total length; the length of 
the head five to five and one-fourth times ; one of the caudal lobes three 
and a-half to four times. In the second dorsal are from eighteen to 
twenty-one rays, in the second anal from sixteen to nineteen, while in the 
Carolina Pompano there are twenty-one to twenty-two. 
In the south it is sometimes called the ‘‘ Shore Pompano,”’ and is known 
in the Bermudas by the name ‘‘ Alewife.’’ 
THE ROUND POMPANO. 
The Round Pompano is cosmopolitan in its distribution, occurring in 
the North and South Atlantic, and in various parts of the Indian Ocean. 
The young have been obtained in the harbor of Vineyard Haven, Mass., 
and at Beaufort, S. C. It is probable that the species is far more abund- 
ant in our waters than we now suppose it to be. 
The only well authenticated instances of the capture of the Pompano 
with hook and line are those recorded by S. C. Clarke. During ten win- 
ters of Florida angling he writes: ‘‘I have only once seen this fish taken 
with the hook. My fish was taken on a rod with clam-bait, while fishing 
for sheepshead in April, 1875, in the Hillsboro River, near New Smyrna.’’ 
B. C. Pacetti, a veteran fishermen, assured Mr. Clarke that during forty 
years’experience, he had only known of two similar instances. 
The African Pompano, Z. goreensis, originally described from the 
