296 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
fishes at that season. Forty species, including crustaceans and mol- 
lusks, were shipped on the 20th of April to Buffalo. These were supple- 
mented by ten or fifteen more from Woods Hole, Mass. 
Bad weather on the coast of North Carolina seriously hampered the 
work during April, so that when the car reached Buffalo, two days 
before the Exposition, the number of fish delivered in good condition 
was comparatively small, though better than had been anticipated under 
the circumstances. Some of the fishes were bruised, and the losses 
during the first few days were large, but it is worthy of note that at the 
close of the Exposition in November there was still in the aquarium a 
number of fish brought from North Carolina in April on the first trip. 
In May a carload of salt-water fishes was received from Woods 
Hole, Mass., and from time to time during the Exposition additional 
consignments arrived. These fish were collected under more favorable 
conditions, as the Commission operates at that point several pound nets 
for the use of the Biological Laboratory, besides making collections 
with seines and other suitable appliances. 
The salt-water display embraced the following species from the 
Atlantic coast: 
Blue-fish, bur-fish, striped mullet, sea bass, white perch, sea raven, sea robin, dog- 
fish, sculpin, cod, hake, croaker, crevalle, cunner, pig-fish, pin-fish, pipe-fish, remora, 
rudder-fish, sand-dabs, scup, shark, skate, summer skate, squeteague, lane snapper, 
spot, star-fish, sticklebacks, stingray, swell-fish, tautog, toad-fish, tomcod, sand dollars, 
variegated minnows, short minnows, striped minnows, lump-fish, sheepshead, com- 
mon eel, conger eel, file-fish, sea horse, summer flounder, spotted flounder, winter 
flounder, hog-choker, thread-fish, killi-fish, king-fish, menhaden, blue crab, green 
crab, lady crab, hermit crab, king crab, spider crab, horseshoe crab, conch, lobster, 
sea cucumber, sea anemone, and diamond-back terrapin. 
From Bermuda 21 specimens were shown, representing 6 species, as 
follows: 
Margate-fish, lane snapper, blue tang, blue angel, squirrel-fish, and red hind. 
The following list shows the fresh-water fishes exhibited: 
Atlantic salmon, landlocked salmon, quinnat salmon, rainbow trout, steelhead 
trout, black-spotted trout, Loch Leven trout, brown trout, Scotch sea trout, brook 
trout, albino brook trout, aureolus trout, hybrid trout, lake trout, Canadian red trout, 
Dublin trout, white-fish, lake herring, grayling, striped bass, shad and gizzard shad, 
large-mouthed black bass, small-mouthed black bass, rock bass, Warmouth bass, 
strawberry bass, white bass, yellow bass, crappie, burbot, yellow perch, pike, sauger, 
pike perch, pickerel, muskellunge, sun-fish, blue sun-fish, sturgeon, lake sturgeon, 
buffalo-fish, lake carp, leather carp, scale carp, channel cat-fish, spotted cat-fish, 
spoon-bill cat-fish, bullhead (cat-fish), grass pike, ling, shiners, common sucker, chub 
sucker, red drum, dace, dog-fish, eel, fresh-water drum, gar pike, golden ide, golden 
tench, green tench, gold-fish, lamprey, redhorse, mud puppies, lawyers, quailbacks, 
soft-shell turtle, snapping turtle, red-bellied terrapin. 
The exhibit of fresh-water fishes, taken as a whole, far surpassed 
any exhibit of this character made at previous expositions, or in fact at 
any permanent aquaria in this country, during the summer months. 
