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away, however, on the Kamchatkan coast, these fish are found in 

 much vaster numbers even than on Yetorup. 



The Central Kurils are practically without fish. Between Urup 

 and Kharimkotan hardly a fish is to be caught or seen. The water 

 around these central islands is mostly very deep, and the bottom 

 either of rock boulders or clean sand, on which there is little or 

 nothing for fish to feed. 



The following is a list of the fishes noticed by the writer : — 

 Fresh-^uater Fishes. — 



King salmon, Oncovhynchus tchawytcha or orientalis {?). 



Observed on Yetorup only. 

 Salmon, Oncorhynchus Haheri Pall. 



„ Blakistoni. 

 Salmon trout, „ Perryi. 



„ Jessoensis, and some other species, on 

 the southern islands. 

 Hump-backed salmon, Oncorhynchus proteus. 

 Oncorhynchus lagocephalus, and some other kinds, on the 



northern islands. 

 Sea-trout. 

 Brook-trout. 

 Mountain trout. 

 Bullhead. 

 Marine Fishes. — 

 Cod, GadusQ). 

 Halibut, Hippoglossus {?). 

 Flounder, Pleuronectes {?). 

 Herring, Cliipea harengus, and other species. 

 Iwashi, Clupea Melanostica. 

 Smelt, Hypomesus (?). 

 Sea- wolf, Anarrhichas lupus. 

 Rock-cod, rock-fish, and keep-fish. Several kinds, as Irish 



lof^ sculpin, sea-robins, Scorpcenidce and Cottidoe. 



Sharks, Squall. Not numerous. The writer has seen seals 



and sea-otters taken by a large species of shark near the 



islands. 



Deep-sea Fishes. — On three or four occasions, when pulling along 



off" the coasts of the Kurils in search of the sea-otter, the writer 



found fish which, from drawings and descriptions given in works 



