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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



down for two or three weeks there were nearly always found in them a consider- 

 able number of small fishes of various species. Since all the water of the car must 

 in these cases have entered through the screen windows of j^ inch mesh, the 

 fishes must have come in when they were very small. Thg following is an 

 incomplete list of these fishes found in the cars." It should also be mentioned 

 that among these fishes and the other young specimens placed in the cars there 

 was no evidence of illness or mortalitv. 



From July 6 to the last of August, 1908, small anchovies {Stolepliorus 

 mitchelli) continually entered the cars through the fine screens. In many 

 instances hundreds of them, from 2 to 20 millimeters long, were found in these 

 cars. In August several cars were fitted out with coarse screens, one-fourth 



a From data collected by H. C. Tracy. 



