THE ANIMAL LIFE OF TIIL (iliOlP. 503 



In addition to the lun^' list oi' iiiariiiL' species tliei'e is an extended list ol 

 fresh-water limn, many species of which were also used for food by the natives 

 living at some distance from the sea. 



But important as limn is as a footl foi- man. its importance as a food for 

 the myriads of animals of the coral reef that feed on it exelnsively. or at one 

 stage or another of their existence, is far greater. It is perhaps in this indirect 

 way that it has its most significant bearing on the food supply in Hawaii, and 

 it is the O'cological relation of these curions plants an<l animals to their envi- 

 ronment, that is of such absorbing interest to the student of nalucal liislory. 



D. H. HILL LIBRAK> 

 North Carolina State CoileQ.* 



