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Family 24. AILORHYNCHID^. 



60. Aulorhynchus flavidus Gill. 



Eleven specimens, 1.15 to 2.1.3 inche.>i long, seined at Quarantine Dock, near Port Townsend; 3 

 specimens, 1.25 inches long, taken in kelp near pier at Port Townsend, 5 from Loring, and 1 from Alert 

 Bay. The species has also been recorded from Sitka by Bean (1882.) 



Fig. 24.— -Vulorhynchus flavidvis Gill. 



Family 25. SYNGNATH1U.E. The Pipefishes. 

 61. Siphostoma griseoUneatum (AjTes). 



Four specimens, 4 to 9 inches long, taken at Loring; one a male, G.75 inches long, had eggs and 

 young in its pouch; 3 females, G.5 to S inches long, seined at Kilisut Harl>or; 2 females, 5.5 and 11.5 

 inches long, seined at Metlakahtla; one specimen, 5 inches long, seined in Taylor Bay, Gabriola Island. 

 We have also 2 specimens, one taken at Loring and one at Yes Bay in 1905, and one other taken at Port 

 Ludlow in 1895. 



Family ^(^. AMMODYTIDvE. The Sand Launces. 



62. Ammodytes personatus (iirard. 



Collections were made by the Albatross as follows: One specimen, 3.75 inches long, at Sucia Island, 

 May G, 1894; 13 specimens, 3.5 to 7 inches long, south side of Akatan Bay, Aleutian Islands, July 20, 

 1894; 42 specimens, 3 to 5 inches long, at Agattu Island, June 6, 1894; C specimens, 3 to 5 inches long, 

 taken at Atka Island, June 10, 1894; one specimen, 4 inches long, at station 3595; 52 by Mr. Rutter at 

 Uganuk in 1897; 2 specimens, 4 and 4.25 inches long, at Unalaska, July 2, 1900; 118 specimens, 2 to 

 6.25 inches long, were taken in 1903 at Admiralty Head; Loring; Metlakahtla; Pablof Harbor; Tganuk, 

 Uyak Bay, and Shakan Bay. 



In addition to the specimens in the collection, the species was seined in abundance in Pablof Bay 

 and also observed at station 4242 in Karta Bay, at Port Alexander, and Kilisut Harlior. It is frequently 

 found in the stomachs of other fishes — in the stomach of a halibut at Loring, and many in the stomachs 

 of sockeyes; many were also found in the stomach of a Dolly Varden trout. 



The species has been recorded by Bean (1882), as Ammodytes americanus, from Sitka; Port Mulgrave, 

 Yakutat Bay; Chugachik and Port Chatham, Cook Inlet; Semidi Islands; Humboldt Bay, Shumagins; 

 Iliuliuk, Captains Harbor, and Chernoffsky, Unalaska; ConstantineBay, Amchitka; Port Clarence; and 

 Point Belcher, Arctic Ocean. Also by Bean in 1884 (as A. personatus) from Wrangell and Port Ches- 

 ter. Gilbert (1895), Unalaska; Chernoffski; Herendeen Bay and Hagemeister Island. Nelson (1887), 

 St. Michael; and Scofield (1899), Chignik and Port Clarence. 



Small boys, seen using this fish at Sitka for bait in fishing for "black bass" (Sebastodes melaiiops), 

 called them '-needlefish."' They are abundant along the Alaskan coasts at least as far north as the 

 Aleutian Islands, going in great schools and frequenting sandy shores, where they quickly bury them- 

 selves in the sand when disturbed. At Unalaska in 1892 one of us saw more than a barrel taken in one 

 haul with a short seine. More delicious little fish probably do not exist. They are usually prepared 

 by rolling in fine corn meal or cracker crumbs and frying in butter. 



Family 27. BERYCID^. 



63. Plectromus lugubris (Gilbert). 



Recorded from .station 3327, mirlh of Unalaska (Gilbert 1895), as MeJamphae.i higiihris. 



