PORGY

a general name for a large family of good food-fishes. The typical genus — (Calamus) is especially Vid, abundant in the West Indies tA UH é, and Mediterranean, and a ‘ fairly common about the; ie Florida Keys. All its mem a bers are small except jolt-head,”’ which may attain two feet in length and en ‘T™. ( ten pounds in weight. —— = poe The ordinary domestic ae ns ‘‘norgies”’ are of a different 1 ~ AK - WY - lomus), represented northward chiefly by the Common Jolt-head porgy scup—brown above, rather silvery below, and shaped a good deal like the sheepshead--and southward by the very similar southern ‘‘porgy.’’ The former is known also as porgy, paugy, scuppaug, and fairmaid.