108 Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 



Among these specimens, which were divided between the United States 

 National Museum and the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, were a 

 number of the rare form P. prolans, specimens of which Coles also took at 

 Cape Lookout in 1910 and again 1911 (Gudger 1912b). 



Cephalacanthus volitans (Linnaeus). 



FLYING-FISH ; FLYING-ROBIN. 



Although this flying gurnard seems to have been abundant at Beaufort 

 in the '70s and '80s, of late years it has been extremely rare. In the 

 summer of 1904 I had tbe good fortune to collect a specimen, and in the 

 following season another was taken by Dr. C. B. Wilson. On August 10, 

 1912, Coles took near Beaufort Inlet the first and only specimen of this 

 gurnard in his 11 years' fishing on our coast. It is now in the United 

 States National Museum. 



Ogcocephalus nasutus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



BAT-FISH. 



Coles has added another fish to the fauna of North Carolina and indeed 

 of the United States by the capture of a specimen of this rare bat-fish. 

 This specimen, which was taken in a purse seine in the open sea between 

 Beaufort Inlet and Cape Lookout, is 5J4 inches long. Heretofore it has 

 not been taken north of the West Indies. Tins is the sixteenth, or if the 

 identification of the cub shark, Carcharhinus lamia, be confirmed, the 

 seventeenth, species which Mr. Coles has added to the ichthyological 

 fauna of North Carolina. It is on depjsit in the United States National 

 Museum. 



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