NOTES ON A COLLF.CT10N OF FISHES FR0:M THE ISLAND 

 OF FORMOSA. 



By David Starr Jordan, 



President of Lehiiul Slanfnr>l Jnnior Viiiveryitu, 



iind 



Barton Warrkn P^vermann. 



lehOninlnqht of the Unlled Slales Fisji Commission 



The island of Formosa is now part of the Japanese Empire. Beyond 

 the o-eneral fact that its fauna must lie similar to that of the neighbor- 

 ing coasts of China and the Philippines, scarcely anything is known of 

 its fishes. In the present paper is given the record of two collections 

 made under Japanese auspices. The first was obtained by Mr. Tsuna- 

 suke Tada, teacher in the Middle School at Osaka, for the Imperial 

 University of Tokyo. The second was obtained by Japanese naval 

 officers and others for a fisheries exhibit in Tokyo, and has been depos- 

 ited in the Imperial Fisheries Institute or School of Fisheries of Tokyo. 

 The latter collection was placed in our hands by Dr. Shinnosuke Mat- 

 subara, director of the Fisheries Institute. These specimens are with- 

 out other locality than "Taiwan," and are apparently a series of the 

 conunon market fishes of the port of Keerun (Keelung), the chief port 

 of Formosa. This collection contains but few duplicates. The collec- 

 tion of Mr. Tada was made in six localities: Keerun, Taihoku, Giran, 

 Toil, Suwata (Suwo Bay), Kotosho, and Hokoto. Taihoku is the cap- 

 ital of Formosa on the Tan Sin (fresh water) river. Keerun (Keelung) 

 is its seaport at the north end of the island. Giran is a neighboring 

 seaport to the eastward of Keerun. Toil and Suwata are near Giran. 

 Hokoto, or Pescadores, is a large group of islands to the westward of 

 Formosa; Kotosho a smaller group to the southeastward. Giran is 

 about 50 miles to the westward of Ishigaki, in the Riukiu group. 

 This collection is made up chiefly of small fishes, but among them are 

 numerous duplicates, of which specimens have been placed in the United 

 States National Museum and in the Museum of Stanford University. 



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