The Days of a Man Dsso 



Santa In Fcbruai^^ we proceeded northward to Santa 



Barhaia Barbara, charmingly situated and with a sugges- 

 tion of the French Riviera. As a collecting ground 

 it proved one of the best, the channel and the off- 

 shore islands being rich in fish life. One day we 

 climbed the Sierra Santa Ynez, which rises behind 

 the town and gives a superb view. This was one 

 of the roughest ascents I ever made, because of the 

 ragged shrubbery which envelops its slopes. That 

 evening on our return, hot and dusty, we were de- 

 lighted to find that the men employed by us, John 

 Weinmiller from Maine and Andrea Larco, a Geno- 

 vese, had brought in a new species, the most bril- 

 liant fish on the coast, light pink in color, crossed 

 by broad bands of deep crimson, and known as 

 the "Spanish Flag." This, our choicest discovery, 

 we named Sebastichthys riibrivinctus. 



An albacore yielded another interesting find, for 

 it had swallowed a full-grown hake — Merluccius — 

 in the stomach of which lay a little deep-sea fish — 

 Sudis Sudis ringens — never seen before or since, though 

 afterward we opened many an albacore and many 

 a hake. One more rarity, and one only, rewarded 

 us in the process — a tiny lantern fish with luminous 

 spots, which had risen from the deeps in a storm 

 (nothing else ever brings it from below) and which 

 we named Myctophum crenulare. 



In the channel the California Flying Fish — Cyp- 

 selurus calif ornicus — runs in multitudes in early 

 spring, so that we had an opportunity, unique up 

 to that time, to learn exactly how it flies. From a 

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