THE CAYALLY. 
THE CAVALLY AND OTHER CARANGOIDS. 
Swift speed crevalle over that watery plain. 
Swift over Indian River’s broad expanse. 
Swift where the ripples boil with finny hosts, 
Bright glittering they glance ; 
And when the angler’s spoon is over them cast, 
How fierce, how vigorous the fight for life ! 
Now in the deeps they plunge, now leap in air 
Till end’s the unequal strife. 
Isaac McLellan. 
HT'HE members of the family Carangidce , which is closely allied to the 
mackerel family, are distinguished chiefly by the form of the mouth, 
and by the fact that they have uniformly but twenty-four vertebrae, ten 
abdominal and fourteen caudal, while the mackerel have uniformly more, 
both abdominal and caudal. They are carnivorous fishes, abounding 
everywhere in temperate and tropical seas. On our own eastern coast 
there are at least twenty-five species, all of them eatable, but none of them 
of much importance except Pompanoes. On the California coast there are 
two or three species of this family, of small commercial importance. 
Caranx hippos , the Cavally of the Gulf of Mexico and Eastern 
Florida—the “Horse Crevalle” of South Carolina—occurs abundantly 
on our Southern coast, and has been recorded by Prof. Poey from Cuba 
and by Cope from St. Christopher and St. Croix. It is generally dis¬ 
tributed throughout the West Indies, and is found along the Pacific coast 
the Gulf of California to Panama. The species was originally described 
