PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 653 



These brilliant little fishes inhabit onlj- large, deep rock pools, hiding 

 under the sea-weed of ledges, and frequently swimming out into the 

 open water of the pool. They are accompanied by the adult, the usual 

 uniform scarlet color of which appears a distinct lusterless yellow in 

 the water. 



The specimens described were taken at La Jolla, near San Diego. 

 They have been sent to the United States National Museum. 



San Diego, Cal., November 6, 1882. 



oiv A ciivivArnoiv beak from penivsyi-taivia. 



By FREDERICK ^V. TRUE. 

 (Read before the Biological Society of Washiugton, October 27, 1882.) 



1. In April of the present year Professor Baird received notice through 

 the kindness of Mr. George Thurber, of New York, that a bear of pe- 

 culiar color, which was said to have been killed in Pennsylvania, was 

 exposed for sale at the commission house of Messrs. E. & O. Ward. 



Professor Baird immediately effected the purchase of the animal, and 

 in due time it arrived at the National Museum. It proved to be a very 

 beautiful specimen of the Cinnamon Bear ( Ursus americnnus Pallas, cin- 

 namoneus And. & Bachra.), a male about two-thirds grown. 



The particulars of the capture being desired, the Messrs. Ward ad- 

 dressed a letter to the hunter, Mr. Seely Bovier, and received a reply, 

 of which the following is an extract : 



"Alba, Pa., Ajnil 20, 1882. 

 "E. & O. Ward: 



"Gentlejien: Yours of 18th just received. I would say that the 

 bear was killed by myself on April 12, in Lycoming County, Monet 

 Township, in this State, on what is known as the South Mountain ranges. 

 I have hunted and trapped all my life and have never seen anything li!ce 

 this animal. All who have seen him are in doubt as to what species of 

 bear he is. During all last summer in the back settlement near which 

 I killed him, several of the men, women, and children were followed 

 after night by what they called a panther. He would come very close 

 and make an awful noise ; sometimes he would be seen about dark in 

 the buck field. I told the men there were no panthers in the county; 

 that it must be something else. Undoubtedly it was this bear which 

 followed them. I never saw him until the day I killed him. He was 

 the most ferocious of all the bears I have ever killed. You will find 

 that one ball went through his liver; that seemed only to increase his 

 rage, however, and I was forced to put one into his brains. The spots 

 on his head where the hair is off evidence the violence with whicli he 

 'tore around' after he was wounded. 



