ZOOLOGICAL SOCIKT^ lUI.I.I'.TIN 



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VEARUXG RAIXBOW TROL" 

 Hatched in ihc Ac|uarium. 



ele\cn feet lout;, an American crocndile nine feet 

 long, several drum-fish, each weighing over fifty 

 pounds, and two green morays, six feet and seven 

 feet long respectively. The seven-foot dolphin, on 

 exhibition last summer, was injured in capture and 

 lived only a week. The sturgeons have lived in the 

 building two years, the alligator four years, and one 

 of the green morays four years. 

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Blitid Fishes from Mammoth Cave. — Nearly a 

 year ago the Aquarium re- 

 ceived a couple of blind fishes 

 from Mammoth Cave, Ken- 

 tucky {Typhlichthys sitbkr- 

 raneus and Chologaster agas- 

 sizii), which have been living 

 comfortably in a small glas^ 

 aquarium ever since. 



The former is of a pak- 

 brown color and the latter a 

 pale pink, about as colorless 

 as the average albino fish, and 

 their rudimentary eyes are so 

 small as to be scarcely notice- 

 able, and appear to be quite 

 useless. 



Both specimens feed freely 

 and have increased slightly in 

 size. They have been fed 

 exclusivelv on Gammarus, a 



small marine crustacean, 

 usually obtainaljle from the 

 bunches of sea-weed brought 

 in l)y the .Aquarium "col- 

 lector." 



The Typhlichthys is about 

 two and one-half inches long. 

 The other is smaller. Both 

 were presented by Mr. B. F. 

 lunliigher. 



. I Ibiiio Lake Trout. — Some 

 lime ago the Aquarium re- 

 ceived from the New York. 

 State Fish Hatchery at Sara- 

 nac Inn a number of speci- 

 mens of albino lake trout> 

 They were hatched in Feb- 

 ruary, 1Q05, from eggs taken 

 at Lake Clear, Franklin Co., 

 N. v., in ( )tti)l)er, 1904. About fifty albinos were 

 found among the fry produced from 120,000 eggs. 

 The specimens are all of a pale golden color and 



with pink eyes. 



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Bluefish in Captivity. — One of the tanks at the 

 Aquarium contains a couple of bluefish (Pomatomus 

 saltatri.y) which have been in the building over a 

 year and a half. This is a good record for this- 

 wild oceanic fish in cai>tivitv, specimens exhibited 



A I- AkI. I,kll W 111 I I I I>H. 

 has livtii four years in the .\(|uarium. 



