NATUKAL HISTORY NOTES ON SOME BEAUFORT, 

 N. C, FISHES, 1910-11. 



No. III. Fishes New or Little Known on the Coast of North Carolina. 

 Collected by Mr. Russell J. Coles* 



By E. W. Gudgek 



The ichthyological events of the years 1910 and 1911 in the 

 Beaufort region were the expeditions of Mr. Russell J. Coles, 

 of Danville, Va., to Cape Lookout. As previously stated (Gud- 

 ger, 1912) Mr. Coles has been fishing in the vs^aters of Beaufort 

 and surrounding parts for many years. In July, 1909, seeking 

 especially for rare forms, he fished extensively and effectively 

 at the Cape, so efl:'ectively (he added Narcine brasiliensis to our 

 fauna) that he came back in 1910 as volunteer collector of 

 fishes for the American Museum of Natural History. With a 

 larger force of men and a fuller equipment of boats, nets, and 

 other apparatus, he was extraordinarily successful, taking dur- 

 ing the season (1910) a total of 77 species, of which 5 were new 

 and a larger number but sparingly recorded in the literature as 

 found on our coast. In 1911, Mr. Coles sought not to take a 

 large number of species, but rather to collect new forms or those 

 but little known to the coast of North Carolina. As to the 

 former, he was successful in adding 8 new species, of the latter 

 fishes he took quite a number. In all his additions to our fauna 

 number no fewer than 14. 



A brief statement of the data collected by Mr. Coles will now 

 be given. It is in part taken from his paper published by the 

 American Museum (1910), but mainly it was communicated 

 by him to the writer personally. Some of these data have al- 

 ready been given in the preceding papers of this series (Gud- 

 ger, 1912, 1912a), in connection with the writer's o^vn obser- 

 vations. The fishes named, which were taken in 1910, were 

 presented to the American Museum of Natural History, while 



* Parts I and II of this series, bearing sub-titles "Elasmobranchii — with 

 Special Reference to Utero-gestation" and "Teleostomi" respectively, have been 

 published in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Vol. 25, 

 1912. See under literature cited at the end of this article. 



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