22 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 9I 



Bowl Rock 162°. Nine hundred fathoms of cable was paid out, the 

 haul being made, therefore, in at least 300 fathoms. The area trav- 

 ersed ranged from 100 to 300 fathoms in depth, the result being 

 that the tail end of the otter trawl was torn out. From the remaining 

 webbing we obtained a mass of sticky mud containing a pecten and 

 an isopod. We had undoubtedly overloaded the dredge with the 

 bottom mud and thus ripped out the end. 



February 25, 1933 



We came to anchor in Luispena Channel off Culebra Island and 

 after dark put the 8-foot net overboard and used the cargo lights. 

 With it and the deep nets we caught a mass of small fish and a squid. 

 We also made a tow with the 4-foot bobbinet net, using the port 

 launch, and caught a mass of minute forms. 



February 26, 1933 



Shortly after 6 o'clock, Fenimore Johnson, Dr. Darby, Mr. 

 Douglass and his two daughters, Dr. Price, Mr. Weber, and the 

 writer paid a visit to Flamingo Lake in the interior of Culebra 

 Island, which we were told was swarming with ducks. This slightly 

 brackish lake has been formed by the piling up of shore debris at 

 the entrance to a gully on its sea side to form a hurricane rampart. 

 It is probably a quarter of a mile across in its largest diameter, is 

 shallow, and contains an abundance of vegetation, largely Chara. 

 The lake was literally swarming with ducks. There must have been 

 several thousand, most of them being lesser scaup. The rest were 

 bahama ducks, and among these was a sprinkling of coots, great 

 blue herons, little blue herons in various phases of coloration, and 

 green herons. There was also a huge flock of lesser yellowlegs, a 

 smaller number of turnstones, some spotted sandpipers, and the 

 usual number of native species of land birds, as well as man o' war 

 hawks, brown pelicans, etc. From the shores of this lake we gathered 

 some algae, fiddler crabs, and a few minute mollusks. 



STATION 80. Lat. i8°i9'o5"N. Long. 65°i9'2o" W. February 26, 1933 



Lat. i8°i9'io" N. Long. 6s°i9'4o" W. 



When the dredge was lowered at 10: 15 a.m., Punta Tamarindo, 

 Culebra Island, bore 336°, Stream Point 306°. When it was sur- 

 faced at 10: 30, Punta Tamarindo bore 270° and Stream Point 336°. 

 This haul was made in 9 to 10 fathoms, in the narro^y channel. 



It yielded a quantity of corallines and bryozoans. 



