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Eastport (Bean, 1880), means that the fish was collected in 
Eastport and that the record of it is made by Bean and will 
be found under 1880 in the chronological list of records ; 
the letter “a” after date indicates a second paper by the 
author in the same year, and “6” indicates a third. Casco 
Bay (Kendall coll., 1896), indicates that the species was col- 
lected by Kendall in Casco Bay in 1896, no published record 
of which has been made. ‘Coll,’ means in every instance 
collection of, or observed by. Portland (U.S. N. M., 18783), 
shows that the species was collected at Portland in 1873 and 
the record is found in the catalogues of the Department of 
Fishes of the U.S. National Museum, and explanation of this 
fact can be found in the list of records and references under 
the year 1875 in the chronological list of records. Me. F. C. 
Report means Maine Fish Commission Report, and U.S. F. 
C. refers to the United States Fish Commission.* 
Many more or less definite references to the same locality 
have been omitted for the sake of conciseness. Others 
occurring in sportmen’s journals covering a period of many 
years, often lacking some element of definiteness, have been 
omitted because value received would hardly be commen- 
surate with the time and labor entailed in compiling them. 
Because a species of fish has been recorded from Maine 
waters is not absolute proof that it occurs there, and that it 
has never been recorded is not positive evidence that it does 
not occur; in fact, there are doubtless other fishes than those 
herein recorded occurring in the waters of the Maine coast, 
especially in deep water, which are rarely caught, and then 
only by accident, by trawl, or deep-water fishermen. Occa- 
sionally some of these forms die and are washed up on the 
shore or are found floating at the surface. Such was the 
ease with Macrourus bairdi at Eastport. It would be ex- 
pected that such fishes as are known to occur on the Nova 
*Further explanations will be found at the end of the catalogue. 
