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Season in R. I.: Rather common in summer and early fall. The first 

 specimen from Rhode Island was taken by Samuel Powell at Newport and 

 described by Gill in 1862. 



Habitat: Sandy shores. 



Food: Almost exclusively algae. 



55. Euleptorhamphus velox (Poey). 



Geog. Dist.: West Indies, occasionally northward in the Gulf Stream to 



Massachusetts. Rare. 

 Specimen in the U. S. National Museum, taken at Newport by Mr. Brown. 

 (Bull. U. S. Nat. Museum., 1879, 55.) 



SCOMBERESOCID.^. The Sauries. 



56. Scomberesox saurus (Walbaum). Saury; Billfish. 



Geog. Dist.: Common in schools in open seas north of Cape Cod and of 

 France. 



Season in R. I.: Very rare. One specimen is in possession of the Commis- 

 sion, presented by Mr. J. M. K. Southwick, of Newport, and dated 1899. 



EXOCCETID.E. The Flying-Fishes. 



57. Parexocoetus mesogaster (Bloch). 



Geog. Dist. : Tropical seas, common in the East Indies and West Indies, 

 and in the Hawaiian Islands. North in the Gulf Stream to Newport. 



A specimen 5^ inches long, from Newport, is in the Museum of the Academy 

 of National Sciences at Philadelphia. (Jordan and Meek, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1885, 47.) 



58. Exoccetus VOlitans (Linnseus). Black-ivinged Flying-fish. 



Geog. Dist.: Open seas, north to the Grand Banks, southern Europe and 



Hawaiian Islands. 

 Specimen in U. S. National Museum, taken at Block Island by the U. S. Fish 



Commission, August, 1874 



59. Cypsilurus f ureatus (Mitchill) . 



Geog. Dist.: Common in warm seas, north to Cape Cod and Mediterranean. 



