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to the sea. These young are then of about one pound weight, appearing 
to the casual observer like pompano, and I am told that they equal it for 
edible purposes. They are caught accidently by seines and trolling-lines. 
Large ones are not considered choice food, the flesh being dark and 
almost tasteless. The average weight is twelve pounds; occasionally they 
attain the size of twenty pounds.” 
Prof. Jordan found this species abundant in Lake Pontchartrain. 
Caranx crumenophthalmus , called in the Bermudas, where it is of some 
importance as a food-fish, the “Goggler,” or “ Goggle-eyed Jack,” and 
in Cuba the “ Cicharra,” occurs in the West Indies and along the Atlan¬ 
tic coast of the United States north to Vineyard Sound. It is also found 
at Panama and in the Gulf of California, and in the Indian Ocean, the 
Red Sea, and off the coast of Guinea, while, as has been remarked, it is 
abundant in the Bermudas. Its large, protruding eyes are very noticeable 
features, and the Bermuda name seems appropriate for adoption, since the 
fish has with us never received a distinctive name. In form it somewhat 
resembles the species last discussed, with which it is probably often 
confused. Stearns speaks of a fish, common at Key West, which is known 
as the “ Horse-eyed Jack,” and this may prove to be the same species. 
THE JUREL OR HARD-TAIL, 
Caranxpisquetus, known about Pensacola as the “ Jurel,” “ Cojinua,”' 
and “ Hard-tail ”; along the Florida coast as “Jack-fish” and “Skip¬ 
jack”; in the Bermudas as the “Jack” or “Buffalo Jack”; in South 
Carolina as the “Horse Crevalle”; at Fort Macon as the “Horse 
Mackerel ”; about New York and on the coast of New Jersey as the “ Yel¬ 
low Mackerel,” is found in the Western Atlantic from Brazil, Cuba, and 
