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second and third rays longest, instead of the first, as in the other species. Color of 
head and body (preserved specimens) is an almost uniform grayish brown, some- 
what lighter beneath and finely punctulate with darker; membrane of spinous 
dorsal with small brown punctulations between second and fifth spines; soft dorsal 
similarly marked along outer margin and along the middle third of its width ; caudal 
Fig. 59— Adult fish. 
POGONIAS CROMIS. 
punctulate at base and on the prolonged lower lobe; other fins hyaline. The scales 
on the smallest example are quite distinct. 
Pogonias cromis (Linnseus). Black [Drum, Sea Drum, Drum, Big Drum, 
Banded Drum, Gray Drum, Drumeish, Puppy Drum (young). 
Pogonias cromis (fig. 59) is found along the Atlantic coast from New England 
to Argentina but is more plentiful on the Florida coast than northward. 
