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greater breadth and intensity of the black bands on 

 the upper side of the wings. It appears to be rather 

 common in this region during March. 



March 31, 1899. To-day the sun shone brightly, 

 and Mr. B. and I rowed two miles up the Halifax and 

 landed on the peninsula. On the way up we rowed 

 through a school of mullet, and one of them leaped 

 into the boat. While the boat was at anchor a second 

 jumped into it, and on the way back a third did like- 

 wise. This one began jumping sixty or eighty feet 

 distant, and after giving six great leaps, clearing each 

 time eight to ten feet of water, essayed a seventh, and 

 landed squarely between us. Mr. B. had already told 

 me of going out at night with another party and a 



Fig. 42 Mullet. 



Mugil cephalus L. 

 (From Bull. 47, U. 8. Nat. Mas.) 



lantern in a boat, in the latter part of April, when 

 this fish was running in great numbers, and having 

 361 leap into the boat during an hour and a half's 

 row. I had hitherto regarded this as a somewhat 



