Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical 

 Pacific in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission 

 Steamer "Albatross," from August, 1899, to March, 1900, Commander 

 Jefferson F. Moser, U. S. N., commanding. 



XIII. 

 THE SHORE FISHES. 



BY \MLLIAM C. KENDALL AND EDMUND L. GOLDSBOROUGH. 



(rulilishcil liy penriission of Oeo. M. Bowers, U. S. Commissioner of Fisli and Fisheries.) 



INTRODUCTION. 



The following report is based upon a collection of shore fishes and a few 

 surface pelagic fishes made during the expedition of the U. S. Fish Commission 

 Steamer "Albatross" in 1899 and 1900 under the direction of the late Dr. 

 Alexander Agassiz. 



The places visited are the Marquesas, Paumotu, Society, Cook, Friendly, 

 Tonga, Fiji, Ellice, Gilbert, Ratak, Marshall, Caroline, and Ladrone Islands 

 (Guam), descriptions of which appear in Mr. Agassiz's Coral Reefs of the Pacific 

 (Memoirs M. C. Z. 28, 1903). There is also an account of the native fisheries 

 in Mr. A. B. Alexander's Notes on the Boats, Apparatus, and Fishing Methods 

 employed by the natives of the South Sea Islands and results of fishing trials 

 by the Albatross (Report U. S. F. C. for 1901, 1902, p. 741-829). 



Some of the localities yielded many more species than others but this is 

 doubtless due mainly to more extensive collecting in those places. 



While the collection is not a large one, upon the whole, when the unfavorable 

 conditions and poor facilities for collecting among the coral islands are con- 

 sidered, a remarkably large number of species was obtained. Many of them, 

 however, are represented in the collections only by young or immature fishes 

 difficult of identification. 



