22 Director^ s Anmial Report. 



lived for a time in the Zoological Gardens. However, I am unable 

 to find any previously published descriptions of the eggs. 



I understand that the nest in strucfture, size and material does 

 not differ to any extent from those of other geese, while usually 

 two or three, though rarely five, eggs are laid. These are oval 

 in form, of good firm texture, pure white in color, with a smooth, 

 even surface, and measure 3.30X2.45 inches. Although occasion- 

 ally eggs are laid by domesticated birds the)'^ are rarely ever fertile; 

 while eggs taken from nests found in the mountains, where the 

 Nene rear their young in the wild state, hatch when placed under 

 domestic fowls. 



Three New Hawaiian Fishes. 



WM. AI^ANSON BRYAN. 



While looking through the colle(5lion of fish casts on exhibi- 

 tion in this Museum recently, Dr. David Starr Jordan expressed a 

 belief that certain species shown were undescribed. Descriptions 

 of the supposed new forms were accordingly prepared and submit- 

 ted to him for verification, with the result that three species here 

 published as new seem to be valid. 



The descriptions and figures of four recently described species 

 are also appended, chiefly for the color notes. They are either 

 wanting in former charadlerizations or are so much at variance 

 with those of our casts, which are colored with great care from life, 

 as to make the notes here given worthy of record. 



Family ZANCIvID^. 

 ^^aticlus ruthiae, new species. 

 Head 2.1 in body; depth of body a little greater than length; 

 eye 2 in snout; D. vii, 38; A. iii, 33; snout 1.75 in head. 



Body, oblong, much compressed and elevated, covered with 

 minute rough scales; mouth, small, with brush-like proje(5ling 

 teeth; no teeth on the palate; snout short, bones of the top of the 

 head thick and solid; upper profile of the snout very concave (in 

 type no indication of a frontal horn); preopercle unarmed; gill 

 membranes broadly united to the isthmus; a single continuous 

 dorsal with seven spines, the third and succeeding spines produced 



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