386 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [98] 
‘ LIST OF PLATES. 
PLATE I.—The Sword-fish, Xiphias gladius. Length,8 feet 4inches. Drawing 
by H. L. Todd, from specimen taken on the coast of Rhode Island, 
now stuffed and preserved in the National Museum. 
PLATE Il.—The Mediterranean Spear-fish, Tetrapturus imperator. Outline from 
figure in Cuvier & Valenciennes’s Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, 
1. cexxviii. 
PLATE IJI.—The Cape Spear-fish, Tetrapturus Herschellii. Outline from figure in 
Annals of Natural History, vol. i, pl. x. 
PLATE IV.—The Western Atlantic Spear-fish, Tetrapturus albidus, Poey. Draw- 
ing by H. L. Todd, from cast of specimen taken on coast of Massa- 
chusetts, and preserved in the National Museum. 
PLATE V.—The Western Atlantic Spear-fish, Tetrapturus albidus. Fac simile of 
figure in Poey, Mem. His. Nat. Cuba, ii, pl. xv, fig. 1. 
PLATE VI.—The Cuban Spear-fish, Tetrapturus amplus. Fac simile of figure in 
Poey, Mem. Hist, Nat. Cuba, ii, pl. xv, fig. 2. 
PLATE VII.—The Indian Ocean Spear-fish, Tetrapturus brevirostris. Outline from 
figure in Day’s Fishes of India, pl. xlvii. 
PLATE VIII.—The Old World Sail-fish, Histiophorus gladius. Outline from figure 
in Cuvier & Valenciennes’s Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, pl. cexxix. 
PLATE IX.--The Japanese Sail-fish, Histiophorus orientalis. Outline from figure 
in Temminck & Schlegel’s Fauna Japonica, pl. lv. 
PLATE X.—The American Sail-fish, Histiophorus americanus. Drawing by H. L. 
Todd, from cast of specimen taken near Newport, R. I. Preserved 
in the National Museum, 
PLATE XI.—Skeleton of Xiphias gladius, from the somewhat imperfect specimen 
in the National Museum. 
PLATE XII.—Skeleton of Histiophorus americanus, from the somewhat imperfect 
specimen in the National Museum. 
PLATE XIII.—Skeleton of Tetrapturus imperator. From lithograph in Agassiz’s Pois- 
sons Fossiles, v, p. 89, tab. E. 
PLATE XIV.—Fae simile of figure of Xiphias gladius in Cuvier & Valenciennes’s 
Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, pl. cexxvi. 
PLATE XV.—Map showing geographical distribution of the species of the Sword- 
. fish family throughout the world. 
PLATE XVI.—Fig. 1. Young of Sword-fish, 37™™ long. Fac simile of figure in Liit- 
ken’s Spolia Atlantica, pl. ii, fig. 10. 
Fig.2. Young of Sword-fish, 12 inches long. Fac simile of figure in 
Cuvier & Valenciennes’s Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, pl. ccxxv. 
PLATE XVII.—Young of Sail-fish, 32; inch long. Fae simile of figure in Liitken’s 
Spolia Atluntica. 
PLATE XVIII.—Fig. 1. Young of Sail-fish, about 9™™ long. ) Fac similes of figures 
Fig. 2. Young of Sail-fish, about 14™™ long. in Giinther’s Fishes 
Fig. 3. Young of Sail-fish, about 60™™ long. of the South Sea, 
and in Liitken’s Spolia Atlantica, in Vidensk. Selsk. Skr., 5, 1880, 
p. 443. 
PLATE XIX.—Young of Sail-fish, H. pulchellus, 4 inches long. Fac simile of figure 
in Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, pl. ‘ccxxx. 
PLATE XX.—Young of Sail-fish, H. immaculatus, Riippell, 18 inches long. Fac 
se of figure in Transactions of Zodlogical Society, London, vol. ii, 
pl. xv. 
PLATE XXI.—Sword of young Sword-fish, taken from nostril of shark at Glouces- 
ter, Mass.: Magnified thrice. 
PLATE XXII.—Vertebrate parasites of Sword-fish. 
Fig. 1. Remoropsis brachypterus. The Sword-fish Remora. 
Fig. 2. Rhombochirus osteochir. The Spear-fish Remora. 
PLATE XXIII.—Swordfisherman in position for action. 
PLATE XXIV.—Sword-fish fishing in the Mediterranean. 
