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CONTEIBUTIO¥S TO THE N^ATURAL HISTORY OF THE 

 COMMANDER ISLANDS. 



XII.— FISHES COLLECTED AT BERING AND COPPER ISLANDS BY NIKOLAI 

 A. GREBNITSKI AND LEONHARD STEJNEGER. 



By Tarleton H. Bean, M. D., M. S., 



Honorary Curator of the Department of Fishes, 

 and 



Barton A. Bean, 



Assistant Curator of the Department of Fishes. 



The COLLECTIONS here catalogued were obtained partly by Dr. 

 Stejiieger during- his stay on the Commander Islands in 1882-83, and 

 partly by Mr. Grebnitski from 1883 to 1885. The number of species 

 is 45. Most of them were picked up on the beaches between tides; 

 fishes from deeper waters were occasionally taken from stomachs of 

 cod and wolf fish. No appliances for dredging or trawling were 

 available, hence the fish fauna was by no means exhausted. 



Notwithstanding the unfavorable conditions for making a collection, 

 there are several very interesting species, as, for example, Aspidopho- 

 roides monopterygius, Gasterostens hracliypoda,, Gymiielis viridis^ and 

 Liparis tunicata, forms belonging to western Atlantic and Greenland 

 waters; the little known Cottus axillaris and Oydopterielithys rentricosus 

 are also represented. Doubtless, as Dr. Stejneger remarks, "a system- 

 atic search would add many species," but meanwhile the forms here 

 mentioned will have an important bearing upon the zoological relations 

 of the Commander Islands to the mainland of Asia and Alaska. 



A series of specimens of Anoplarchus from Puget Sound, Washing- 

 ton, is introduced to show the variability of the squamatiou in one of 

 its species. 



SQUALUS ACANTHIAS, Linnaeus. 



A specimen was preserved in salt by Dr. Stejneger. 



SALVELINUS MALMA (Walbaum), Jordan and Gilbert. 



No. 33832, U.S.N.M. (15G0). Bering Island, September 9, 1882; L. 

 Stejneger. "G^o/ete" of the natives, according to the Collector's notes. 



No. 33836, U.S.N.M. (1561). Bering Island, September 9, 1882; L, 

 Stejneger. 



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