Genres des Poissons de la Faune de Cuba, appartenant 

 á la Famille Pércidos, avee míe Note d'introduction par 

 J. Carson Brevoort. 



By Felipe Poey. 



REPRINTED FROM THE ANNALS OF THE LYCEUM OP NATURAL HlSTORY IN NEW YORK, 

 •Vol. X., FEBRUARY, 1871. 



INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



[The difficulty in establishing a permanent generic group of animáis 

 defined by truly natural characters, is well known to naturalists, and 

 to those more especially, who, as in the case with fishes, have to study 

 preserved, and therefore shrunken and faded specimens. The want 

 of a complete series of all the species and varieties, taken at all 

 seasons and at all ages, and in both sexes, together with accurate 

 data concerning their habits, geographical range, rarity of occurrence 

 and appearance when fresh, causes insuperable difficulties in properly 



