A History of the Fishes of Massachusetts

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" " STORER, Synopsis, p. 58.
Color. Varies exceedingly. Some specimens are of a deep blood-red ; others of a pinkish-purple ; while others still are of a yellowish-brown, darker on the back ; each, however, variegated on the head, sides, and fins with irregularly defined markings. Abdomen yellow. A large female, weighing five pounds and measuring twenty-six 84 HISTORY OF THE FISHES OF MASSACHUSETTS.
inches in length, had the whole upper part of the body of a dark brown, elegantly varieg
...ated with white and dark-brown markings ; this appearance most striking upon the head, about the eyes, and along the upper jaw ; it is also observable beneath the chin and lower jaw. The branchial rays, as also the rays of the dorsal, pectoral, and caudal fins, marked with transverse white lines, and the intervening membranes very minutely dotted with black. Abdomen white. In still another specimen of a reddish- brown color, transverse broad bands of sub-quadrangular form were noticeable upon the back ; one of these occupied the space between the first and fifth dorsal rays ; a second commenced at the seventh ray, and was continued to the fourteenth ; a third, between the fifteenth and sixteenth rays ; a fourth, between the eighteenth and twenty-second ; and a fifth, from the twenty-sixth to the twenty-eighth ; in the intervening spaces was a whitish marking beautifully edged with black.

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