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Sheepshead

an esteemed food fish of the Atlantic Coast. In shape and coloring this fish resembles the sunfish and the croppie, but it attains a length of thirty inches. It is related to the sea-bream.

Sheepshead
Volume V · Aiton’s Encyclopedia