10 Synopsis of the Fresh Water Fishes^ 



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We embrace this opportunity of rendering our thanks to the 

 gentlemen of Trinidad who have contributed to us specimens of 

 the fishes of the island, or who have otherwise assisted us in our 

 ichthyological researches. 



To our kind and excellent friends, Messrs. Frederick A. 

 Searles and Frederick "Weedon of Orange Grove, Tacarigua, we 

 are especially indebted. While partaking of their hospitality, 

 their acquaintance with the island enabled them to point out 

 and direct us to many interesting localities that might have 

 otherwise been unknown. Mr. John Wilson, also of Tacarigua, 

 procured for us several additional individuals of some rare 

 fishes of which we had previously only unique sj)ecimens, and 

 which we describe as the Corynopoma Veedonii, the Stewar- 

 dia albipinnis, and the Nematopoma Searlesii. By the aid of 

 the above gentlemen, and especially of Mr. Wilson, we were 

 also enabled to obtain a very complete collection of the reptiles 

 of the island, a catalogue of which will be given in a subse- 

 quent paper in these " Annals." 



Mr. Cleavers interested himself in obtaining for us a suite of 

 the fishes of a small " river," one of the tributaries of the 

 Caroni, flowing past his residence, which has increased our 

 knowledge of the local distribution of the species. 



The Deputy-assistant Commissary-general, Frederick A. 

 Ibbettsen, also obtained for us specimens of the fishes of the St. 

 Ann's river, a small stream discharging itself into the Gulf of 

 Paria in the rear of Port of Spain, the capital of the island. 

 They were similar to those found in the Caroni and its tributa- 

 ries. 



To Mr. Sylvester Devenish, Secretary of the Society of Arts ; 

 to Dr. Philbrick of the Pitch Lake, La Brea ; to the Rev. A, 

 McSorley of Tacarigua, and to the Pev. Mr. Lambert, of Arouca, 

 we are under obligations for favors shown, and aid afibrded. 



In the preparation of this memoir, we have been greatly 



