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LIST OF THE FISHES COLLECTED BY MB. W. J. FISHER, UPON THE 



COASTS OF LOWER CALIFORNIA, 1876-77, WITH 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



BY W. N. LOCKINGTON. 



In x\.pril, 1876, the schooner Harvest Queen, W. J. Fisher in 

 command, left San Francisco on a collecting expedition to Lower 

 California. The intention was to work down the western coast, 

 and then along the eastern to the head of the Gulf of California ; 

 and the object was to collect seals, birds, fishes, mollusks, Crus- 

 tacea, radiates, etc., for sale or exchange. 



Financially the expedition proA^ed a signal failure ; few skins or 

 shells of value were procured, and most of the former were spoiled 

 before reaching San Francisco ; but the scientific results were far 

 from insignificant. Chieflj' in consequence of the free use of the 

 dredge in depths under fifteen fathoms, large numbers of small 

 Crustacea, many of them new or little known, were procured, also 

 a few rare and three* or four new mollusks, and some interesting 

 fishes from the Gulf, the latter mingled with the Crustacea and 

 other objects di'edged at moderate depths. 



Besides these fishes, which will be described in the following 

 pages, several better known species were taken in considerable 

 quantity at Magdalena Bay, upon the Pacific coast of the peninsula. 



As these fishes have already formed the subject of two short 

 papers in the Proceedings of the California Academj^ of Sciences, 

 and one or two were by error described as new, they will be in- 

 cluded in the^list herein given, with references to my previous papers. 



The reptiles obtained were catalogued in the American Natu?'- 

 alist, April, 1880, p. 295. Nothing new was found among birds, 

 and the only mammals taken were a fine female Elephant seal 

 {Morunga proboscidea) , killed at Ascencion Island, on the western 

 coast of the peninsula ; several sea-lions (Eunietopias stelleri) ; 

 and the skull of a species of Orca. 



Diodon maculatus Lac. Gulf of Cal. 



Tetrodon politus Gill. Magdalena Bay. 



Tetrodon punctatissimus ? Gunther. Gulf of Cal. 



Antennarius leopardinns Gnthr. Gulf of Cal. 

 Hypleurochilus gentilis (Grd.) Gill. La Paz, Las Animas Bay, Gulf of Cal. 



PhoUdichthys anguilliformis Locktn. Gulf of Cal. 



Cremnobates altivelis Locktn. Gulf of Cal. 



