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Family 24. AULORHYNCHIDjE. 



60. Aulorhynchus flavidus Gill. 



Eleven specimens, 1.15 to 2.15 inches long, seined at Quarantine Dock, near Port Townscnd: 3 

 specimens, 1.25 inches long, taken in kelp near pier at Port Townsend. 5 from Loring, and ] from Alert 

 Bay. The species lias also been recorded from Sitka by Bean 1 1882. 1 



Fig. 24.- Aulorli; N' mi fl&vidus Gill. 



Family 25. SYNGNATHIDjE. The Pipefishes. 



61. Siphostorna griseolineatum (Ayres). 



Four specimens. 4 to 9 inches long, taken at Loring; "tie a male. 6.75 inches long, had eggs and 

 young in its pouch;  ; females, 6.5 t<> 8 inches long, seined at Kilisut Harbor; 2 females. 5.5 and 11.5 

 inches long, seined at Metlakahtla; one specimen, 5 inches long, seined in Taylor Kay. Gabriola Island. 

 We have also 2 specimens, one taken at Loring and one at Yes Bay in 1905, and one other taken at Port 

 Ludlow in 1895. 



Family 26. AMMODYTIDvE. The Sand Launces. 



62. Ammodytes personatus (iirard. 

 Collections were made by the Albatross as fellows: ( >ne speeimen. 3.75 inches long, at Sutia Island, 



May 6, 1894; 13 specimens, :'.."> to 7 inches lone, south Bide of Akatan Hay. Aleutian Islands, July 20, 

 1894; 42 specimens, 3 to 5 inches long, at Agattu Island, June 6, 1894; 6 specimens, 3 to 5 inches long, 



taken at Atka Island, June 10, 1894: one specimen, I inches long, at station 3595 52 by Mr. Kutter at 

 Uganuk in 1 S<I7 ; 2 specimens. I and 4.25 inches long, at Unalaska, .Inly 2. 1900; 118 specimens, 2 to 

 G.25 inches long, were taken in 1903 at Admiralty Bead Loring; Metlakahtla: Pablof Harbor: Uganuk, 

 Uyak Bay, and Shakan Bay. 



In addition to the specimens in the collection, the apeciea was seined in abundance in Pablof Bay 

 and also observed at station 1242 in Karta Bay. at Port Alexander, and Kilisut Harbor. It is frequently 

 found in the stomachs of other fishes — in the stomach of a halibut at Loring, and many in (hi- stomachs 

 of soekoyes; many were also found in the stomach of a Dolly Varden trout. 



The species has been recorded by Bean (1882), as Ammodytes americanus, from Sitka; Port Mulgrave, 

 Yakulat Bay; Chugachikand Port Chatham. Cook Inlet; Semidi Islands; Humboldt Bay. Slnimagins; 

 Iliuliuk, Captains Harbor, and Chemoffsky, Unalaska; ConstantineBay, Amchitka; Port Clarence; and 

 Point Behher, Antic Ocean. Also by Bean in 1884 (as .1. personatus) from Wrangell and Port Ches- 

 ter. Gilbert l 1895), Unalaska; Chemoffski; Herendeen Bay and Hagemeister Island. Nelson I 1887), 

 St. Michael; and Scofield (1899), Chignik and Port Clarence. 



Small boys, seen using this fish at Sitka for bait in fishing for 'black bass" (Sebastodes melanops), 

 called them -needlefish." They are abundant along the- Alaskan coasts at least as far north as the 

 Aleutian Islands, going in great schools and frequenting sandy shores, where they quickly bury them- 

 selves in the sand when disturbed. At 1'nalaska in L892 one of us saw more than a barrel taken in one 

 haul with a short seine. More delicious little fish probably do not exist. They are usually prepared 

 by rolling in tine .urn meal or cracker crumbs and trying in butter. 



Family 27. BERYCIDjE. 



63. Plectromus lugubris (Gilbert). 



Recorded from station 3327, north of Unalaska (Gilbert 1895), as Melamphaes lugubris. 



