THE FISHES OF SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA. 
BY 
Car H. EIGENMANN, 
Professor of Zoology, Indiana University. 
(With Plates x—xvmi1). 
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The present paper contains an account of the observations made by 
‘me on the fishes of San Diego and vicinity from December 11, 1888, to 
“March 4, 1890. 
_ Kspecial attention was paid to the spawning habits and seasons, the 
embryology, and migration of the fishesof southern California. A diary 
was kept of the occurrence of each species throughout the year 1889 
and part of 1890. 
My knowledge of the occurrence of each species is largely based on 
observations of the fish brought into the markets, which I visited twice 
or thrice daily, and of those caught with hook and line by the numer- 
ous habitual fishermen found on each of the wharves, and of those 
caught by the seiners whom I accompanied on several occasions. Dur- 
ing the early part of 1888 each individual fisherman sold his catch as 
best he could and the data for this part of the year are not as full as 
for the latter part of 1888, when practically the whole catch was brought 
to two markets, where I could see the fish as they were unloaded. The 
knowledge of the ocean fishes is largely derived from frequent visits to 
ocean tide-pools, from the fish brought to the markets, and from a two- 
weeks’ stay on the Cortes Banks. As a matter of course, hundreds of 
Specimens of most species have been observed to every one preserved, 
and the present paper is to be looked upon as a contribution to the eco- 
nomic history of the fishes, rather than to the atiatomy of the various 
species. 
_ With two exceptions the types of the new species discovered and 
otherwise interesting specimens have been deposited in the U.S. Na- 
tional Museum. <A nearly complete series of types has been placed in 
the British Museum and minor series in the Museum of Comparative 
Zoology and the California Academy of Sciences. 
~ The fishing grounds about San Diego are: (1) San Diego Bay; (2) 
False Bay; (3) the shoal water (down to 100 fathoms) skirting the 
coast; (4) the Coronado Islands; and (5) the Cortes Banks. There 
are shallows off Coronado Beach which have not been examined. 
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