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Ledge, at the entrance to Hamilton Harbor, is marked by a pyramid of 

 stone, called the " Hog fish Beacon," which is surmounted by a huge 

 iron image of a Hog-fish. 



The long streamer-like appendages or continuations of the vertical 

 fins give to the Hog-fish as it swims a singularly graceful appearance. 

 The beauty of those exposed in the market is frequently marred, how- 

 ever, by haviDg had these ornaments bitten off by the craw-fish and 

 lobsters confined with them in the wells of the boats. 



The Hog-fish attains the weight of twenty pounds, and is among the 

 choicest of table-fish ; its hard, white, exquisitely -flavored flesh has 

 never been found injurious here, though in some parts of the West 

 Indies it is regarded with suspicion. The common name refers to the 

 swine-like profile and dentition. 



HARPB RUFUS, (Linne) Gill. 

 Spanish Lady-fish. 



Pudiano vermellio, Marcgrave, Hist. &c, Brasil, iv, 1648, 145. 



Tardus jlavus (Hog-fish), Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carol. Florida and the Bahama Islands, 



ii, 1743, 11, tab. xi, f. 1. 

 Labrus rufus, Linne, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1, 1758, 284 ; ed. 12, 1, 1766, 475. — Gmelin, Linne, 



Syst. Nat. 1, 1788, 1287.— Schneider, Bloch, Syst. Ichth. 1801. 244.— Lacepede, 



Hist. Nat. Poiss. iii, 1803, 427. 

 Cossyphus rufus, Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. iv, 1862, 108.— Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. 



Soc. Phila. 1870, 463. 

 Harpe rufus, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1863, p. 222. 

 Bodianus rufus, Poey, Eep. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, ii, 1883, 331. 



Perro Colorado, Parra, Descr. Dif. Piez. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1787, 3, lam. iii, fig. 1. 

 Bodianus bodianus, Bloch, Ichth. vii, 1797, 24, tab. ccxxiii. 

 Cossyphus bodianus, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. xiii, 1839, 103. 

 Lutjanus verres, Bloch, op. cit. tab. cclv. 

 Sparus verres, Shaw, Gen. Zool. iv, 1803, 414. 

 Cossyphus verres, Castelnau, Anim. Nouv. ou Rares, Am6rique du Sud, Ichth. 



1855, 27. 

 Sparus falcalus, Bloch, op. cit. tab. cclviii. 



Bodianus Blochii, Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv, 1803, 279, 290. . 

 Harpe cosrulto-aureus, Lacepede, op. cit. 426, 427, tab. viii. fig. 2. 

 Labrus scmiruber, Lacepede, op. cit. iii, 428. 



Isot common. The species is also recorded from various of the West 

 India Islands, the Gulf of Mexico, Bahia, Eio de Janeiro, and Saint Hel- 

 ena. Closely-related species are known in the Spanish and French An- 

 tilles under the names "Doneella" and " Demoiselle," and the Berinu- 



