THE FISH FAUNA OF NORTH CAROLINA. . 17 



The steamer Fish-Hawk, while attached to the Beaufort laboratory in 1902, 

 made collections on some of the off-shore grounds and surveyed an important 

 outlying fishing bank. A number of fishes not previously recorded from North 

 Carolina were found during this vessel's operations. 



The fishermen and fish dealers of Beaufort and iMorehead have supplied 

 interesting specimens and useful information which have contributed to the com- 

 pleteness of our knowledge of the salt-water fishes of the state. 



In 1904, Mr. Barton A. Bean, of the department of fishes of the U. S. National 

 Museum, made an extensive collection of fishes at Beaufort. This collection, 

 together with numerous specimens of North Carolina fishes which have been 

 accumulating in the museum for many years, has been taken into consideration. 



A fish collection of special interest is that in the State Museum at Raleigh. 

 The specimens have been drawn chiefly from the Beaufort and Cape Fear sections, 

 and have been brought together by Mr. H. H. Brimley, to whom the writer is 

 under obligations for information in regard to this collection. 



Other salt-water collections and observations of importance were made by 

 the late R. Edward Earll in the Wilmington region in 1880; and by Dr. W. C. 

 Kendall, while attached to the steamer Fish-Hawk in the winter and spring of 

 1890-91, who has furnished the writer with interesting notes on the fishes of the 

 Cape Fear, Beaufort, Cape Lookout, and Hatteras sections. In 1905, Mr. W. H. 

 Yopp, of Wilmington, supplied interesting data concerning the salt-water fishes 

 of the Wilmington market. 



Reference should be made to the studies of the parasites and food of the 

 fishes of the Beaufort region by Prof. Edwin Linton in 1901 and 1902. His 

 report, "Parasites of fishes of Beaufort, North Carolina" (1905), contains much 

 information not obtainable elsewhere regarding the food of the numerous fishes 

 taken at that locality in summer. 



A number of papers dealing with individual species of fishes studied or 

 collected in the state have been published from time to time, and will be found 

 in the list of literature cited. Among these may be mentioned three papers by 

 E. W. Gudger which appeared in 1905, namely, "The breeding habits and the 

 segmentation of the egg of the pipe-fish, Siphostoma floridce", "A note on the 

 habits of 'Rissola marginata" , and "A note on the egg and egg-laying of Ptero- 

 phyrne histrio,t\\e gulfweed-fish";"The devil-fish and some other fishes in North 

 Carolina", by Theodore Gill (1903) and "Notes on the habits of an opidiid 

 (cusk eel) ", by the same writer (1905) ; and " Notes on a rare flying-fish {Cypsel- 

 tirus lutkeni) ", by Hugh M. Smith (1905). 



One of the most voluminous writers on the fishes of the state is j\Ir. Stephen 

 G. Worth, former superintendent of fish and fislieries of North Carolina and for 

 many years superintendent of the Edenton station and various local substations 

 of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. Mr. Worth's papers, which pertain more partic- 

 ularly to the artificial propagation of fishes, appear in the state agricultural 

 reports and the Bulletins of the U. S. Fish Commission, and constitute an inval- 

 uable record. 



