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the left side being occupied by the urogenital organs. The details of 

 arrangement and form may be best seen from the figures (11 and 12). 

 The latter figure is drawn to a scale one-third smaller than the for- 

 mer. In Figure 11, the vent is seen to be located some distance in 

 front of the end of the cavity; a character not found in any other 

 cottids examined. The food in the five or six specimens dissected 

 was made up entirely of vegetable remains, principally foliose alga>, 

 mixed with which were numerous grains of sand. 



Family GOBIIDAE 

 Gillichthys mirabilis Cooper 



Morris and Starks record this species as "taken in abundance in 

 a slough which received some fresh water near Old Town" (San 

 Diego Bay), and, "in Newport Bay it was found more widely dis- 

 tributed." In a small brackish slough in "Aliso Canyon" near 

 Laguna large numbers up to two inches in length were found. The 

 water in this slough was apparently derived mainly from the slight 

 drainage down "Aliso Creek," but probably also received some salt 

 water from the bay at the mouth of the canyon during the highest 

 tides. 



Typhlogobius californiensis Steindachner. Blind Goby. 



(Plate III, P) 



One specimen, about two and one-half inches long, taken in the 

 sand under a stone above low tide mark. The water was a few inches 

 deep over the stone when the fish was taken, but a lower tide would 

 leave it dry. Whether the fish remains under stones in such cases 

 was not determined, as no other specimen was found. 



Family ECHENEIDIDAE 

 Echeneis remora Linnaeus. Remora. 



One specimen brought in from deep water by fishermen at New- 

 port. 



Family MALACANTHIDAE 



Caulolatilus princeps (Jenyns). Whitefish. Whiting. 

 One specimen, thirteen inches long, taken in deep water off New- 

 port. 



Family BATRACHOIDIDAE 

 Porichthys notatus Girard. Midshipman. 



One specimen washed up on sand at Laguna Beach ; another taken 

 by fishermen at Newport. Apparently not rare. 



