THE SERGEANT-FISHES • 



Family XL. RacJiyccntrida; 



The characters of this family are sufficiently shown in the ac- 

 companying illustration of the sergeant-fish, Rachycentroii canadus. 



This fish is an inhabitant of warm seas, ranging in summer 

 as far north on our Atlantic Coast as Cape Cod. It is not un- 

 common from the Chesapeake Bay southward, it is known as 

 sergeant-fish, crab-eater, coal-fish and cobia, and it reaches a 

 length of 4 or 5 feet, and it is edible. 



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