BENEATH TROPIC SEAS 



seventy-one fish. The fallacy of generalization was 

 well shown by an entry in my field note-book. 

 Looking down at the lot of fish, I wrote "the 

 seventy odd taken today are exceedingly brilliant, 

 most of them glowing with every color of the 

 spectrum. " 



Later, I analyzed them, one by one, and found 

 that the brilliant and the dull were about equal 

 in numbers of individuals, thirty-seven to thirty- 

 four. The species showed a less even result, six- 

 teen being decidedly bright colored and seven dull. 

 The details were as follows, — 



Brilliant Dull 



Red Amia Black and white . Eques 



Ilolocentrus (3) Scarus 



Scarus (9) 

 Blue Chromis (4) Odontoscion (4) 



Atherina 

 Purple and 



Yellow Gramma Brown Chromis (3) 



Eupomocentrus (15) 

 Red-spotted .(4) 

 Yellow Apodus 



Parti-colored . Scarus (4) 

 Sparisoma 

 Hypoplectrus (4) 

 Thallasoma 

 Thallasoma (5) 

 Caranx (3) 

 Chloroscombrus 

 Lactophrys 



After the first of these shots, I saw a large fish 

 disturb the surface as it snapped at a floating vic- 

 tim. I went down with John Tee- Van to collect 

 fish and to gather some pink coral I had located 



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