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evergladei. Not very common. 18. — Centrarchus 

 macropterus. Flier. Common; a good foodfish. 19 

 — Enneacanthus gloriosus. Speckled Perch. Com- 

 mon. 20 — Chaenobryttus gulosus. Abundant. 21 

 — Mesogonistius chaetodon. Common. 22 — Lepo- 

 mis auritus. Red Robin. Common. 23 — Lepomis 

 pallidas. Mud Perch. Common. 24 — Eupomotis 

 gibbosus. Sun Perch. Common. 25 — Micropterus 

 salmoides. Common. 26 — Perca flavescens. Yellow 

 Perch. Common. 27 — Hadropterus peltatus. Sev- 

 eral taken. 28 — Boleichthys fusiformis. Common. 



Barton W. Evermann, 



San Francisco, Cal. 



NOTES ON CALIFORNIA FISHES. 



Mr. T. S. Manning of Avalon, Cal., the secre- 

 tary of the Tuna Club, furnishes some interesting 

 notes. Two hundred and fifty-one specimens of the 

 Japanese spear-fish, Tetrapturus mitsukurii, have 

 been taken at Avalon in the last seven years. Their 

 average weight is 182 pounds, the largest weighed 

 340 pounds and measured 10 feet and 10 inches. Mr. 

 Manning has a photograph of one taken in Hawaii 

 said to have weighed 736 pounds. Thus far no spear- 

 fish has been recorded from Hawaii and this weight 

 seems gigantic. The largest sword-fish taken at 

 Avalon weighed 377 pounds, was 11 feet, 11 inches 

 long. Mr. Manning sends specimens of a fish caught 

 in very great schools at San Clemente and never no- 

 ticed by anyone in that region before. It is the short- 

 nosed saury, Cololabis brevirostris, of which hitherto 

 less than a dozen specimens have been known. 



David Starr Jordan, 

 Stanford University, Calif. 



A RARE SHARK (CARCHARHINUS LIM- 

 BATUS) ON LONG ISLAND. 



On August 7, 1916, two sharks were caught in 

 a bluefish net off Easthampton, Long Island. They 



