THE FISHES OF ALASKA. 



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The range of this species is from Monterey Bay i" Kodiak Island, it being most abundant northward. 

 It reaches a length of 18 to 20 inches. Bean (1882) has recorded it from Sitka and St. Paul. Kodiak. 



These lish take the hook freely and afford some sport as game fish. At Sitka July 28 they were biting 

 well and many were caught from the wharf . Pieces of meat were used (or bait and the fish were found in 

 water 6 to 18 feel deep. They usually take the hook rather quietly and at first make a pretty good 

 fight, but soon give up and allow themselves to be lifted out of the water without much struggle. 

 They are therefore a "boy's fish," which will not appeal strongly to the experienced angler, but they 

 are good f 1 fishand bear a certain resemblance to the black base [fiaropterus). Color in life, olive- 

 brown, blotched with dirty red. 



73. Sebastodes ciliatus Til. -in- . 



Two specimens, 3.75 and 7.25 inches long.from station 4285 in ChignikBay. These have 14 dorsal 

 spines each. In all other respects l hoy agree pi rfi ctly with a large specimen im. 28uoi. 13 indies long, 

 taken with hook and line at Loring, July 7. We have also ;; specimens 12 to L3.5 inches long collected 



Fig. 31. Sebastod - ciliatu 



by the Albatross in 1897 at Redfiah Bay and Killisnoo. The species is now known from Kodiak Island, 

 Aleutian Islands. Chignik Kay. Loring. Mary Island. Tolstoi Bay, Nakal Harbor, and Port Chester. 



As our bi-inoh specimen is more than twice the size of those upon which current descriptions were 

 based, we give the following notes on it : Head 3.2 in length; depth 2.8; oblique rows of scales 60, plus 

 a few small scabs on baseof caudal fin; pons 50; eye 1 in head, equaling snout . intejorbital width about 

 equaling eye; fifth dorsal spine 2.75 in head. 



Our examples have been compared with the 3 small specimens from Kodiak in the National 

 Museum and one 7.5 inches long collected by the Albatross at Kodiak Island. August 14, 1888, with 

 which they agree. 



Epinephelus tiliatus Tilesius, Mem. Ac. Sci. St. Petersb., iv, lsio, 474, "Camtschaticus et Americanus": no defin- 

 ite locality given, probably from about Kodiak Island. 



Perra variabilis Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., m. 24] 1811, Aleutian Islands. (Type in museum of Berlin: red exam- 

 ples of S. nlrulianuK included as the summer coloration.) 



