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stuffed, and its form has been somewhat distorted. The 

 form it now has is shown in the plate. In life it may 

 have been more symmetrical, the back higher and the 

 body deeper. 



The type specimen was sent to the Provincial Museum 

 at Victoria bv Mr. II. T. Stainton of Nanaimo, who gives 

 the following account of it in a letter to Mr. Ashdown H. 

 Green, under date of Nanaimo, January 25, 1896: 



" In reply to your favor of the 21st instant, which I 

 have delayed answering in order to get the information 

 you desire regarding the fish I sent to the museum. Mr. 

 G. Marsh, a fish dealer, who gave me the fish, says it 

 was caught on the 21st October, 1895, in the Straits of 

 Georgia, a short distance north of Entrance Island Light- 

 house [about three miles from Nanaimo — a. h. g.], by a 

 fisherman named W. Crocker (who was fishing for cod- 

 fish at the time), with a hand-line and hook baited with a 

 piece of dogfish, in a depth of 150 feet of water. The 

 inside, which was taken out by Mr. Marsh, was the same 

 as that of the codfish ( Sebastodes), and contained what 

 appeared to be a jelly fish. When Mr. Marsh got the 

 fish from the fisherman, it might be said to be still alive, 

 and at that time the holes in its head were more distinct 

 and the coloring around them of a deeper and richer 

 lemon color than when it was packed for shipment to the 

 museum." 



Family NEMICHTHYID^. 

 2. Nemichthys avocetta Jordan & Gilbert. Plate xxi. 



Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 409. Port Gamble 

 Wash. 



In the same collection of the Provincial Museum at 

 Victoria is a fine specimen of Nemichthys avocetta, the 

 second specimen known. This was taken on the beach 



