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The body is strikingly marked with broad bands of black and 

 yellow. A number of specimens were taken by the crew by 

 "jigging" (jerking a hook with an artificial lure up and down in 

 the water) . Specimens were also found in nests of the bald eagle. 



Pungitius pungitius, the many-spined stickleback, was taken in 

 fresh water pools on Afognak Island and the Semichi Islands, 

 both localities east of the Aleutian Islands proper. 



Salmot William Gardner, employee at the salmon cannery 

 at False Pass, told us that there are at least four streams on 

 Umnak Island where steelhead trout run. No species of Salmo 

 were collected in the Aleutian Islands by our party, and it is un- 

 likely that any occur far from the Alaska mainland. Evermann and 

 Goldsborough state that there are no records for rainbow trout 

 (S. gairdneri) in any waters off, or north of, the Alaska Peninsula, 

 and that there are no records for cutthroat trout (S. clarki) 

 beyond Kodiak Island. However, there may be more recent records 

 extending the range of these species. Salmonoid fmgerlings col- 

 lected along the Aleutians by our party invariably were young 

 salmon or Dolly Varden trout. 



Salvelinus malma spectabilis, the Dolly Varden trout, is abun- 

 dant throughout the islands, both in fresh-water streams and in 

 salt Avater near the mouths of the streams. Locally, it is regarded 

 as an important predator on salmon eggs, but there is no con- 

 clusive evidence to this effect. We found the flesh of the Dolly 

 Varden to be quite tasty, although it was scorned by some mem- 

 bers of the party. On Amchitka Island, July 19, 52 specimens 

 were taken with a single haul of a small beach seine. An in- 

 teresting landlocked form of Dolly Varden was observed at 

 Unalaska. On August 17, Captain H. A. Searles presented us with 

 six specimens taken with hook and line in Pyramid Creek above 

 an impassable falls. This form is much smaller and less silvery 

 than the sea-run form, but the body colors are more brilliant. The 

 belly is bright orange, back of the ventral and anal fins it is 

 scarlet, and the body spots are bright orange. 



On Attu Island, on August 17, the natives were removing dozens 

 of large Dolly Vardens from gill nets set for red salmon, leaving 

 them to rot on the lakeshore. Several odd-looking trout, said 

 by the natives to be different "kinds" of trout, proved to be 

 spectabilis. 



Sebastodes ciliatus. A few sea bass were taken with hook and 

 line over the rail of the ship. The fish is not particularly common in 

 the Aleutians. 



