THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 107 
No two photographs of the banded phase are quite alike, the 
markings being apparently dependent upon the degree of hand- 
ling to which the fish has been subjected. 
Rep Hinp, (Epinephelus guttatus). Many phases. In this spe- 
cies the extremes of coloration are represented by a uniform and 
conspicuous redness, usually evident when the fish is in motion, 
but sometimes observable in the photographic tank, and a pale, 
red and white mottling when it is at rest. Between these there 
are many gradations of color and marking. In the first, or 
bright red phase, the spots are uniformly red on a dark red back- 
ground. This is well shown in the plate opposite page 386 in 
American Food and Game Fishes. In the second, the ground 
color turns pale in places, giving a mottling of white, sharply 
spotted with red on both dark and light areas. This is a common 
resting or hiding color. In this phase the fins become pale. 
Another phase shows a pale ground color evenly spotted with red, 
the dark ground color entirely disappearing. This color is also 
developed when the fish is at rest or hiding, and dark fringes may 
appear on the tips of caudal, soft dorsal and anal fins. 
Two phases are shown on plate 3. 
‘Rep Parror-FIsH, (Sparisoma abildgaardi). To visitors this 
is the most interesting among the species subject to sudden 
changes in color. The changes occur frequently when the fishes 
are in motion and are decidedly marked in character. 
In the brightest and most conspicuous phase (fig. 2, plate 4) 
there is a brilliant and nearly uniform red on the under surface 
and lower fins; the color comes like a sudden blush, reaching its 
intensity in two or three seconds. The sides and upper surface 
at the same time quickly turn very dark brown, especially on the 
margins of the scales, with the result that each scale is sharply 
outlined. In the second, fourth and sixth rows of scales, count- 
ing from the dorsal, each third, fourth, or fifth scale in the row 
_remains pure white, giving the fish about sixteen regularly dis- 
tributed white spots, which are very distinct in the dark phase, 
although not distinguishable in the pale phase. The head and 
the dorsal fin quickly become darker, the pale pink of the tail 
turns crimson red, its pale band becoming pure white. 
In its palest phase the fish is almost colorless and nearly with- 
out markings, resembling a dead fish from which color has dis- 
appeared. A fairly pale phase is shown in (fig. 1, plate 4). 
Sometimes when in the dark phase the swimming fish, espe- 
