462 Fisoine In AmMEriIcAN WATERS. 
SECTION SECOND. 
Tue CavaLLo.—sSpecies of Carangus. 
This is a beautiful and excellent fish of the Florida waters. 
It is beginning to visit our bays and inlets, the first hav- 
ing appeared along the New Jersey coast, and between the 
Narrows and Fire Island, in 1871, and every summer since; 
but, like the advent of the bonetta, which has now become 
too numerous, it advances in small shoals, ike scouts sent 
out to find foraging-ground. Without doubt, the menhaden 
(vulgarly called moss-bunker) is the chief bait-fish which has 
attracted the half-dozen families of excellent food-fishes from 
the Bahamas and the Southern coasts within the past ten 
years, headed by the Spanish mackerel, and the cavallo and 
pompano bringing up the rear. 
The pompano having a wide reputation for being one of 
the best breakfast fishes in the world, and the cavallo resem- 
bling it in shape and beauty of tints, sparkling with small 
scales, the fish-dealers at once called it the pompano, and it 
commanded over a dollar a pound; but as it became more 
abundant, and the real pompano appeared, it fell below the 
Spanish mackerel in price. 
The weight of this fish is from three to fifteen pounds; 
and it will be seen by comparing the engravings from the 
drawings made of the fishes when present, that the cavallo 
is a much more beautiful fish in outline than the pompano. 
