EIGENMANN: THE FRESHWATER FISHES OF BRITISH GUIANA 



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We embarked on the canal a Cane-Grove Corner and went about nine miles to 

 Lama Stop-Off, where we made our headquarters, as the guests of Mr. St. Aubyne 

 from the 15th to the 19th of September. Lama Stop-Off, according to a map at 

 hand, is about twenty-two miles from Georgetown in a straight line. Lama Creek 

 below the dam is influenced by the tide so that the top of the dam is but a few feet 

 above Georgetown. 



Fishes are exceedingly abundant at Lama Stop-Off, although the number of 

 species does not seem to be large. Undoubtedly several more species might have 

 been secured if we could have used dynamite or poison. We arrived at nine in the 

 evening and fishes could be heard jumping out of the water in all directions. We 

 were awakened in the morning by the howling of monkeys. The entire force at 

 the command of Mr. St. Aubyne was put to work to use every device known to 

 him, or brought by us, to gather everything there was in the water. 



A naked negro baby caught the enthusiasm, walked into the edge of the water 

 with a market basket, and made a dip, catching a specimen of Carnegiella! It 



Fig. 5. Photograph of Carnegiella strigala in aquarium. 



was the first time the fish had been caught since it was described by Giinther from 

 his poor material without a known locality. Naturally I was very anxious to 

 catch more. In spite of all our efforts we did not catch a second specimen at this 

 place. We found it later at Maduni Stop-Off and in other places. Cichlids were 

 very abundant here, and the delicious luckananee (Cichla) was more abundant 

 here than we found it elsewhere. It gave me particular pleasure, in honor of Mr. 

 St. Aubyne, to apply the name Pristella aubynei to the species from this place, 

 of which we collected more specimens han of any other. 



We seined both in the canal and below the dams at Maduni Stop-Off and 

 Lama Stop-Off. In all we secured forty-nine species, five of which were not taken 

 elsewhere: Rhamdia holomelas, Ageneiosus brevifilis, Nannostomus simplex, Pristella 

 aubynei, and Hyphessobrycon minimus. The first three are certainly found elsewhere 



