98 FISH—CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
FISCH. EIN. SCHWERTFISCH. GENANNT. VON DIESER. 
STADT. FISCHERN. IN. DER. WESER. GEFANGEN. 
UND. DEM. 20. EJUSDEM. ANHERO. NAEHER. 
BREMEN. GEBRACHT. WORDEN. SEINE. GANZE. 
LENGTE. WAR. 10. FUSS. DAS. SCHWERT. WAR. 
7%. VIRTEL. LANG, UND. 3 ZOLL. BREIT.” 
GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE OF THE SWORDFISH FAMILY. 
Although it may not seem desirable at present to accept in 
full the views of Dr: Liitken regarding the specific unity of the 
spear-fishes and the sail-fishes of the Atlantic and Indian oceans, 
it is convenient to group the different species in the way he has 
suggested in discussing their geographical distribution. 
The swordfish, Xzphzas gladius, ranges along the Atlantic coast 
of America from Jamaica, lat. 18 deg. N., Cuba, and the Bermu- 
das to Cape Brenton, lat. 47deg. Not seen at Greenland, Ice- 
land, or Spitzbergen, but occurring, according to Collett, at the 
North Cape, lat.71 deg. Abundant along the coasts of Western 
Europe, entering the Baltic and the Mediterranean. I can find 
no record of the species on the west coast of Africa south of the 
Cape Verdes, though Liitken, who may have access to facts un- 
known to me, states that they occur clear down to the Cape of 
Good Hope, South Atlantic in*mid-ocean, west coast of South 
America and north to Southern California, lat. 34 deg., New 
Zealand, and in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius. Good author- 
ities state that sperm-whales, though constantly passing Cape 
Horn, never round the Cape of Good Hope. Can this be true 
in the case of the swordfish ? 
The sail-fish, A7stiophorus gladius (with H. americanus and H- 
ortentalis, questionable species, and HZ. putchellus and H. immacu- 
latus, youug), occurs in the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Malay Arch- 
ipelago, and south at least as far as the Cape of Good Hope, 
lat. 35 deg. S.; in the Atlantic on coast of Brazil, lat 30 deg. S. 
to o, and north to Southern New England, lat. 42 deg. N.; inthe 
Pacific to Northwestern Japan, lat. 30 deg. to 1o deg. N. Ina 
general way the range may be said to be in tropical and temper- 
ate seas, between lat. 30 deg. S. and 4o deg. N., and in the west- 
ern parts of those seas. 
