CATALOGUE OF VERTEBRATES. 701 



B. noveboracensis, Mitch. Flying-fish. 



Dark blue above ; pectorals blackish at tip ; ventrals white. 

 Dorsal rays, 14; anal rays, 9. More common than preceding. 



" This species can only be looked upon in the light of a 

 straggler. A specimen, taken at Beesley's Point, is in the 

 museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences, at Philadelphia." 



B. exiliens, Gmel. Flying-fish. 



Ventrals nearly plain ; head not very blunt. Dorsal rays, 1 1 ; 

 anal rays, 12. Young with five broad transverse bars ; pectorals 

 banded ; body very slender. E. exiliens was originally applied 

 to the young, E. melanurus to the adults of this species. Occa- 

 sional on our coast. 



CYPSELUBUS, Swains. 



C. furcatus, Mitch, (nuttallii.) Double-bearded Flying-fish. 



Size small, with two ribbon-like barbels ; young with three 

 bands on belly ; pectorals marbled with black ; dorsal very high. 

 Dorsal rays, 13; anal rays, 9. 



" This species is not unfrequently seen, but is by no means 

 abundant." 



O. comatus, Mitch. Single-bearded Flying-fish. 



Greenish above, paler below ; ventrals dusky ; eye very large ; 

 barbel very long, with small accessory barbels at its base. Dorsal 

 rays, 12 ; anal rays, 9 ; length, 8 inches. Rare. 



" This may be an occasional visitor to our waters, but very 

 rarely does it appear, if at all." 



ORDER LOPHOBRANCH II. 



Gills in tufts ; no superior branchihyals, pharyngeals or basihyals ; 

 post-temporal co-ossified with cranium ; snout produced, having a 

 small, toothless mouth at end ; opercle one plate ; skin with bony 

 plates ; no ventrals. 



