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specimens are found, some ranging to over a foot in length. The 

 older ones, however, do not commonly remain in the pools, but live 

 in deeper water around the rocks and beds of alga?. In individuals 

 over three or four inches in length the light spots on the sides arc 

 obsolete. 



Many specimens of various sizes were taken. The accompanying 

 figures and notes were made from a specimen 220 mm. in length. 

 Figure 7 shows the contents of the body cavity with all the organs in 

 their natural position. The great number of pyloric caeca, and the 

 long convoluted alimentary canal are very conspiciious features, re- 

 lating to the food habits of the species. Figure 8 (reduced to one- 

 half the scale of Figure 7) is an outline of the alimentary canal, 

 removed to show the nature of the convolutions. Corresponding 

 numbers in the two figures refer to corresponding parts of the canal. 

 The stomach is not so conspicuously differentiated from the rest of 

 the canal as it is in many of the lower fishes previously noted. As 

 seen by the figure, the oesophagus, stomach, spleen, etc., are all cov- 

 ered ventrally by the intestine, which winds back and forth in a 

 devious course below them. Instead of extending in a series of turns 

 from the anterior to the posterior regions, the intestine appears well 

 back (Figure 7 I) and after doubling across and back it makes a 

 sharp turn (2 and 3) and then runs well forward around its last turn 

 to (4) where it makes another sharp turn anteriorly (5), crossing 

 over near the liver (6) and then down along the left side (8) to the 

 anus. In Figure 8 the liver and gall bladder are shown separated 

 from the rest. The gall bladder lies far back near the urinary 

 bladder in the posterior part of the abdominal cavity, and is con- 

 nected with the liver by its long, tube-like duct. 



The alimentary canal in this specimen measured 550 mm. in 

 length, or two and one-half times the total body length of the fish. 

 The food, as one would expect, is entirely vegetable, so far as known. 

 Specimens dissected contain only pieces of kelp, red alga?, etc. One 

 large specimen twelve inches long had eaten several large chunks of 

 kelp several centimeters in length. 



Family SCIAENIDAE 

 Seriphus politus Ayres. Queen-Fish, White Croaker. 



One specimen taken at Newport. No information as to its abund- 

 ance was secured. 



Sciaena saturna (Girard). Black Croaker. 

 Fairly comnian at Newport and Laguna. 



