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following list is probably not far from right, and is useful from its 

 suggestions as to the origin of some of the names now in use : 



The IVcekvis (Weakfish or Squeteague), the Roch (Rock-fish), the Sonne 

 7'is (Sun-fish), Swart vis (Black-fish or Tautog), were probably later dis- 

 coveries, and if the New Netherlanders had been less imaginative, might 

 have been called numbers fourteen to seventeen. The principal difficulty 

 with this myth is that Alosa has long been known in Holland as the 

 "Elft." Perhaps the double meaning of its name was what suggested 

 an arithmetical nomenclature for the others. 



Another historical incident is connected with Eogonias. The legend 

 of Pascagoula and its mysterious music, deemed supernatural by the Indians 

 is still current. " It may often be heard there on summer evenings," says 

 a recent writer. "The listener being on the beach, or, yet more favor- 

 ably, in a boat floating on the river, a low, plaintive sound is heard rising 

 and falling like that of an y-Eolian harp, and seeming to issue from the 

 water. The sounds, which are sweet and i)laintive, but monotonous, 

 cease as soon as there is any noise or disturbance of the water." 



Bienville, the French explorer, heard the music of Pascagoula, when he 

 made his voyage in 1699 to the mouths of the Mississippi, and his experi- 

 ences are recorded in his narrative. 



Mr. A. W. Roberts gives in the American Angler the following inter- 

 esting notes upon observations of the Drum in confinement: 



" \Vhen curator of the New York Aquarium, several small specimens of 

 the so-called " Banded Drum" were brought to the establishment by the 

 regular collectors. At first they were placed in the medium-sized tanks, 

 wdiere they increased in size so ra])idly that in course of time it was found 

 necessary to remove them to more roomy quarters, where they remaired 



