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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NA TIONAL MUSEUM. 



eels. They are for a time elongate, band shaped, with very small head 

 and loose transparent tissues. From this condition they become grad- 

 ually shorter and more compact, shrinking from 3 or 3^ inches in 

 length to 2 inches. According to Doctor Gilbert, this process, like 

 that seen in various eels, is a normal one, through which all individuals 

 pass. In the Gulf of California, where these fishes abound, these 

 Ixmd-shaped young are often thrown by the waves on the beach in 

 great masses. 



4. ALBULA Gronow. 



C'onorhyncits Nozeman, Act. Select., Ill, 1757, p. 382 (nonbinomial). 



Albula Geonow, Zoophyl., 1763, p. 102 (nonbinomial). 



Alhula Blocii and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 432 {conorhyncus=vulpes). 



Butyrinus'LACEi'EVE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, p. 45 {banana=vulpes). 



Glossodus CuviER, in Agassiz, Spix, Pise. Bras., 1829, p. 48 {forskdli=vulpes) . 



Characters of the genus included above. 

 (albui^^ white.) 



4. ALBULA VULPES (Linnaeus). 



Vtibarana Marcgrave, Hist. Bras., 1648, p. 154 (Brazil). 



Vulpes bahamensis [the Bone-fish] Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolinas, etc,, 1737, pi. ii, 

 fig. 1. (Bahamas). 



Esox vulpes LtNN.F.us, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1758, ]). 313 (Bahamas; based on the Bone- 

 fish, Ttdpes haJiamensis, of Catesby). 



Argentina gloswdonta ForskIl, Descr. Anim., 1775, p. 68 (Djidda, Arabia). 



Macab'i Parra, Dif. Piezas, Cuba, 1787, p. 88, pi. xxxv, fig. 1 (Cuba; based on Vuba- 

 rana of Marcgrave). 



Fig. 2.— Albula vulpes. 



Synodus argenieus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 398 (Asia). 



Clupea brasiliensis Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 427 (Brazil). 



Albula conorynchus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 432 (Antilles; after 



Gronow and Plumier; called Albula jjlumieri on plate lxxxvi). 

 Amia immumlata Blocii and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 451 (Central America; 



after i/amZ*/' of Parra). 

 Butyrinus banana Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, p. 46 (He de France). 

 Clupea macrocephla LACEFtv>E, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, p. 426 (Martinique, on a 



drawing by Plumier). 

 Glossodus forskdli Agassiz, Spix, Pise. Bras., 1829, p. 49 (Bahia; called Engratdis 



sericus and Engraulis bahiensis on plates xxii and xxiv). 



