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in the piece behind and below the pectoral tin, are of postmortem 

 origin, and do not exist in the living fish. They are certainly not 

 shown in Gorde's fine figure of this form (Plate 35. The Fishery 

 Industries of the United States). 



The specimen in the Leyden Museum measured from the tip of 

 the snout to the extremity of the tail 1S4 centimeters, and from 

 the tip of the dorsal fin to the tip of the anal fin 218 centimeters, 



Fig. 120. Model of Sunfish, Ready to Receive the Skin. 



Prepared and photographed by Mr. H. H. ter Meer, Jr. 



making it a fish of by no means an insignificant size. And, to tell 

 the truth, these Sunfish do attain to proportions not to be de- 

 spised, for, according to Goode, one was brought to the San 

 Francisco market some years ago that weighed no less than 636 

 pounds. 



The Sunfish belongs to the family Orthagoriscidce, and it is 

 claimed that two species of them occur in the western Atlantic, 



