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allied to the herring tribe. The ten-pounder was 

 first described by Linnaeus, in 1776, from speci- 

 mens sent to him from South CaroHna by Dr. 

 Garden. He named it saurus, or "lizard," but 

 there is nothing lizard-like about the ten-pounder. 

 I imagine that Dr. Garden sent the fish under 

 the name of " lizard," from hearing it called by its 

 Spanish name of "lisa," which is pronounced 

 much like lizard. The ten-pounder was men- 

 tioned by some of the old voyagers to the West 

 Indies and Carolinas. Like the lady-fish, the ten- 

 pounder is a cosmopolitan, existing in the warm 

 seas of both hemispheres. In the United States 

 it is common to the southern portions of the 

 Atlantic and Pacific coasts and the Gulf of 

 Mexico. 



In the general aspect and contour of its silvery 

 body the ten-pounder has much the appearance 

 of the lady-fish, and has been often confounded 

 with it by anglers. Its body, however, is more 

 slender than that of the lady-fish, with smaller 

 scales and a very different head and mouth ; the 

 lady-fish has a piglike, overhanging snout, while 

 the lower jaw of the ten-pounder projects slightly. 

 The depth of the body of the ten-pounder is only 

 about a sixth of its length, and the body is not 



