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FISHES OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



This is a West Indian fish, not heretofore reported north of the Florida 

 keys. An example 5.25 inches long now in the Beaufort laboratory was col- 

 lected by the Fish-Hawk off Beaufort in 1902; in it the rostral process is very 

 long, being contained 5.5 times in length of head; the eye is. 4 length of this pro- 

 cess; the length of dorsal fin equals diameter of eye; and the anal fin is twice 

 length of dorsal, its origin being midway between origin of dorsal and base of 

 caudal. The species reaches a length of 12 inches. 



Fig. 186. Bat-fish. Ogcocephalus vespertilio. Front view. 



