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Family ALBULIDyE (Lady Fishes). 

 Albula vulpes Linnaeus (Lady Fish). 

 Tropical seas on both coasts of North America, northward in the Atlantic 

 to Cape Cod and in the Pacific to San Diego. 



Collected by the Expedition at Spanish Wells, July 4, 1903. 

 Other common names for this fish are : " banana-fish/' " bone-fish " and 

 " macaibi." 



Family ELOPID^ (Tarpons). 

 Slops saurus Linnaeus (Big-eyed Herring). 

 This rather indifferent food-fish reaches a length of 3 feet or more; it is 

 found in all tropical seas and strays northward to Massachusetts and Lower 

 California. 



Collected by the Expedition at the east end of Hog Island, June 18, 1903. 

 The young were abundant. 



Family CLUPEID^ (Herrings). 

 Jenkinsia stolifera Jordan and Gilbert. 

 This interesting little fish, heretofore known from the Gulf of Mexico 

 (Key West to Yucatan), was obtained by the Expedition at Spanish Wells, 

 July 4, 1903. 



Sardinella sardina (Poey) (Scaled Sardine). 

 West Indian fauna; abundant. Collected by the steamer Albatross at 

 Nassau. 



Sardinella clupeola (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Green Turtle Cay, 1888. C. L. Edwards. 



Family SYNODONTIDA-: (Lizard-Fishes). 

 Synodus intermedius (Agassiz) (Lizard-fish). 

 A very large specimen was observed by me in Nassau Harbor, but we 

 failed to secure it. It refused all bait ofi'ered and the attempts to grapple it 

 with large hooks were unsuccessful. Several small specimens were taken. 



The steamer Albatross collected S. intermedius at Watlings Island and 

 Abaco. 



Trachinocephalus myops Forster (Ground Spearing; Lagarto). 

 Abundantly distributed throughout the West Indies and occurring north- 

 ward on Atlantic coast to the Carolinas. Collected by the Expedition at 

 Clarence Harbor, July 15, and off an island near Nassau, July 20, 1903. 



