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Om Jamaica meddeler Mr. W. Fawcett, fhv. Direktør for den botaniske Have 

 i Kingston mig følgende i Brev af 2den November 1908: 



"There are frcsli water eels in .laniaica, which Dr. Boulf.ngf.r of Die Brilisli Museum 

 (Natural History) assures nie are Angiiilld chrijsiipa. Eels are caught and eaten, but the lishins 

 is not of much importance. They are locally called eels". 



Mr. C. Tate Regan fra Britisli Museum, London meddeler mig i Brev af 13de 

 April 1908 følgende: 



"On the continent of America Anguilla does not npjjear to extend further soutli than 

 Taniaulipas, but in the islands it ranges southwards to St. Croix, St. Vincent, Dominica, (»re- 

 uada, etc. There are specimens from these islands in our collection, liut none from Trinidad 

 from which island we have a fine series of fresh-water fishes". 



Om Forholdet paa den mellem Cuba og Florida beliggende Key West be- 

 retter Jordan (1884, p. Ill) følgende: 



"A single extremely young eel was taken in a seine in Enteromorjdia. The species 

 seems to be entirely unknown to the Key West Fishermen; nor did I find any one who had 

 ever heard the word eel". 



Columbia. 



Steindachner bar givet adskillige viglige Bidrag til Columbias Ferskvands- 

 fiske, saaledes (1878, p. 76) og (1880, p. 90). I sidstnævnte Arbejde findes en "Ueber- 

 sicht der bisher aus dem Stromgebiete des Magdalena-Stromes bekannten Fische", 

 og der opføres i denne 70 Arter (deriblandt Symbranchiis marmoratns) , men ingen 

 Anguilla eller anden Murænoid. 



Venezuela. 



I sine talrige "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Flussfische Südamerikas", saaledes i 

 (1879, p. 151 — 71) omtaler Steindachner Ferskvandsfiske fra Orinoco-Floden. An- 

 guilla mangler overalt. Del samme gælder om Peters's Liste over venezuelanske 

 F"iske (1879, p. 469), hvor der opføres 43 Arter og mellem disse Sgmbranchus mar- 

 nioratus ("calabozo") og Gymnotus elcclricus ("temblador"). 



Britisk Guiana. 



T. Sidney Hargreaves siger i sin Bog "The Fishes of British Guiana", p. 13, 

 Demerara 1904: 



"There is a species of Conger Eel {Lcploccphahis congcr\ and one or two species of true 

 Eel to be met with: but these are never to t)e seen in the market as the créoles object lo eat 

 them, probably on account of their snakclike ni)pearance, althougli throughout tlie Wosl Indies 

 the connnon Eel is highly valued as a food lish". 



Nærmere Underretning fra Forfatteren om de her omtalte Aal har jeg mod- 

 taget gennem el Brev fra "the Director of Science and Agriculture Department, 

 British Guiana", Mr. J. B. Harrison, dateret Georgetown 27. Marts 1908, idel Mr. 

 Hargreaves meddeler at : 



"there are two s|)ecies of Aiiijiiilhi found in fresh water trenches. These are Aiujiiilhi 

 chrysijpa and Anifuilht sp". 



