BULLKTIN 



I'HE HUHEAU OF FISHERIES. 



VERNACULAR NAMES OF FISHEvS HEARD IN HAWAII AND SAMOA. 



In the following table, the vei'iiacular names heard by us in Hawaii and Samoa 

 are hrouo^ht together for purposes of comparison. The Samoan names as given 

 here were obtained l)y Professors Jordan and Kellogg in Apia and Pago Pago, 

 most of them from the fishermen Taua and Vainla. The authors are indebted 

 to Mr. Edwin Gurr, of Pago Pago, for a preliminarj' correction of these names, 

 and to Mr. W. E. Safford for a very much more careful revision of their spelling 

 and meaning, and for the following glossary of the principal nouns and adjectives in 

 the list. It may be noted that A in Hawaiian is replaced by ,s ov f in Samoan, and 

 that Ji m Hawaiian is replaced by t in Samoan. Intercourse l)etween the two groups 

 of islands has in recent yeai's tended to corrupt the Samoan pronunciation, and we 

 often hear in Apia, lufiklfi and the like, when tijjtlji is the correct Samoan form. 

 The Samoan g (as in Pago Pago or Ga) is pronounced like iki. The vowels are 

 pronounced as in Italian, ou not being a diphthong. 



From Lorin Andrews's Hawaiian-English Dictionary we copy the following table, 

 showing the shifting of the consonants in the Polynesian languages: 



N.\.MES OF Specie 



Shark 



Carcharias nielanopterus . 



Sphyrna zygsena 



Himantura fai 



Stoasodon narinari 



Mobula japonica 



Flops saurus 



Albula vulpes 



Chanos chanos 



Etrtniieus niicropus 



Saniinella sirin 



Stolephorus delicatulus . . 



Anchovia 



Plotosus anguillaris 



Trachinocephalus myops. 



Synod us varius 



Saurida gracilis 



Anguilla 



Anguilla mauritiana 



Mano kihikilii 



Hiliimann 



Hihilua 



Awa 



Oio 



Awa awa, Puawa, Awa kala- 



moko. 

 Omaka, Makiawa 



Nana. 



Kawalea 

 Ulae . . . . 

 Ulae . . . . 

 Paka 



Malie, Tanifa. 

 Malie alaniata. 

 Mata-i-taliga. 

 Fai. 



Pelupelu. 

 Pelupelu, I'a 

 Nefu. 

 Nefu. 

 .Apoa. 



Tuna. 



Tuna gatala, Tuna 

 talc. 



