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Color in alcohol, yellowish brown: body and head blotched and mottled with small whitish 

 spots and darkish irregular blotches; dorsal, anal, and caudal fins dark, blotched with white; pectoral 

 similar, the lower rays whitish at tip, the interradial membranes darker. 



This species is related to /. borealis, from which it differs chiefly in the larger eye, the shorter snout, 

 the weaker nasal spines, the shorter preopercular spines, and the less complete series of scales along 

 the base of the dorsal. Type, no. 57822 I". S. National Museum (held no. 99), a specimen 4 inches 

 long from Albatross station 4228 in 41 to L34 fathoms, off Loring, Alaska. July 7, 1.903. ('..types: No. 

 5229, Bureau of Fisheries; no. 20010 Museum Stanford University; no. 57825, II. S. National Museum, 

 and no. 6117, Field Museum, all from the same place; and no. 33003, Academy Natural Sciences, 

 Philadelphia, from Behm (.'anal, near Loring, July 8, 1903. 



This interesting species is named for Mr. James S. Burcham, a young naturalist of great promise, 

 who lost his life at Lake McDonald, November 12, 1905, while in the employ of the Bureau of Fisheries. 



105. Icelinus borealis Gilbert. 



This species is common and widely distributed. We have examined specimens from the following 

 localities: Albatross stations no. 4205, 4209, 4212, 4213, 4217, and 4218 (all in Admiralty Inlet), 4276 

 (Alitak Bay), 4285 (Chignik Bay), 2428 (Behm Canal), 3597 (off coast of Washington), Seattle, and 

 Loring. It had been previously recorded by Gilbert (1895) from various Albatross stations north and 



Fig. 49.— Icelinus borealis Gilbert. 



south of the Aleutian Islands and in Bristol Bay. The known range is, therefore, from Bristol Bay 

 and the Aleutian Islands to Puget Sound. 



Our specimens are 1.6 to 3.25 inches long. The length (2.5 feet) given in Fishes of North and 

 Middle America is evidently an error. We are unable to distinguish T. strabo Starks from this species. 



106. Astrolytes fenestralis (Jordan & Gilbert). 



The collection contains one specimen 3 inches long, seined at Metlakahtla, (i smaller specimens 

 seined at Admiralty Head, Whidby Island, and 5 specimens from Sucia Island; also 13 specimens 

 collected by Mr. Rutter on the beach at Karluk and 13 by Mr. Chamberlain at Loring. Recorded 

 from Unalaska and Sanborn Harbor, Shumagin Islands by Bean (1882) as Artedius notospilotus, and 

 from the Shumagin Islands by Jordan & Gilbert (1899). 



Head 2.9 in length; depth 4.6; eye 4.3 in head; dorsal ix-17; anal xn; lateral line 36; maxillary 

 extending to posterior border of pupil. 



This species reaches a length of about 5 inches. Its known range extends from Puget Sound to 

 Unalaska. 



107. Stelgidinotus latifrons Gilbert & Thompson. 



One specimen 1.13 inches long, from station 4213, near Admiralty Head. 



Head 3.1 in body; depth 4.0; eye 3.5 in head; snout 4; maxillary 2.5; interorbital equal to eye; 

 dorsal ix, 17; anal 14; ventral i, 3; pectoral 15; branchiostegals 0: porea 35. 



Body rather elongate, not much compressed, gradually tapering from head to the rather slender 

 caudal peduncle, the least depth of which is about :'. in head. 



Head rather -mall, lateral profile of snout somewhat blunt and rounded, upper profile somewhat 

 rounded: interorbital rather broad and somewhat concave, nasal spines prominent, a round filament 



