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wlio told me that lie had quite a curiosity to show me; from his description I 

 told the man that his fish was a Malthe and, on showing him a pictnre of the 

 animal, he said that was it. Later he went home and procured the specimen 



Fig. 31. — The common Batflsh {Ogcucephalus vespertilio). Views from above, below, and 

 from the front. After Jordan and Evermann. 



for me, taking it from a trash barrel into which he had thrown it. He said it 

 was the second specimen he had seen, and he is a man of considerable ex- 

 perience. Our captain (Pine), whose home is in New Smyrna, told me after- 

 ward that the fish is occasionally taken there, but is rare. 



