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a concretion dredj^cd on tl'.e Challenger Hanks 

 by Mr. (Jwen Bryant. The latter has hitherto 

 been known from a single specimen taken at 

 Fajardo, Porto Rico, in 1899. Another addi- 

 tion to the fauna of Bermuda is shown in the 

 accompanying photograph, made by Mr. 

 Walter I,. l!easley, in Bernuula, May. 1905. 

 l)icturing a 400-pound specimen of the Black 

 Jewfish, {Garrupa iiii^rita). It is one of the 

 largest of the food-fishes. The sea-horse may 

 be described as follows : 



HIPPOCAMPUS KIKCAIDI. Sp. lun: 

 Length of head equal to body ; eye two and 

 one-half in snout and six in head; height of 

 supraorbital spines equal to eye, with filaments 

 slightly longer ; height of coronet equal to 

 eye, with filaments twice as long, anterior 

 part with one filament, posterior two. Dorsal 

 filaments on first, third, fifth and eighth body- 

 rings, and third, sixth, ninth, twelfth and fif- 

 teenth tail-rings. Spines bearing filaments 

 more prominent than those on other rings. 

 Length of dorsal filaments about two-thirds of 

 snout. Short filaments on lower surface of 

 snout and on anterior joints of four rings of 

 body above anal fin. D. 19, P. 15, A. 4. 

 Dorsal on 3 -"- i rings. Rings 12 + 31 ? Rings 

 of upi)er body somewhat confused. Color in 

 alcohol : Lusterless white with a slight dusky 

 suflfusion. Specimen one and one-half inches 

 long. Bermudas, July, 1906. Type in collec- 

 tion. Museum Comparative Zoology, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. Named for Profes.sor Trevor 

 Kincaid, who has made most interesting col- 

 lections at Bermuda, in many branches of zo- 

 ology. 



Soon after the summer closing of the New 

 York Hippodrome in June, Captain J. G. 

 Woodward deposited at the Aquarium, tem- 

 porarily, two of his trained California sea- 

 lions. These remarkably intelligent animals, 

 which have attracted so nfiich attention at the 

 Hippodrome, are very welcome guests at the 

 Aquarium. These animal stars will be greatly 

 missed at the Aquarium when the time comes 

 for them to go before the foot-lights again. 

 To the general public they are, perhaps, the 

 most interesting objects in the building. 



C. H. T. 



The Aquarium has at the present time A 

 four-hundred-pound Loggerhead turtle, taken 

 on June 20 in a pound net at P.elford, X. J.. 

 in New York Ray. Its length from beak to 

 tip of tail is five feet and nine inches. The 

 top shell is three feet and ten inches long. 



C. H. T. 



HOW SEALS ARE TRALNED 



Bv C. H. TOWNSEND 



(This article is based on an interview with Capt. 

 J. (i. Woodward.) 



AMC)\(i the attractions offered to the 

 public at the New York Hippodrome 

 during the past season none proved of 

 more general interest than the trained seals. 

 Their performances were as charming as they 

 were wonderful. The animals exhibited were 

 of two kinds : the rather small spotted or har- 

 bor seals and the decidedly larger California 

 sea-lions. The former have short hair-cov- 

 ered flippers and are not capable of much ac- 

 tivity on land, while the latter have long, 

 naked flippers on which they can readily stand, 

 and are among the most active of the seal 

 tribe when out of water. All sea-lions are 

 seals, although all seals are not sea-lions. The 

 seal family is a large one, including the huge 

 walrus of the Arctic, the elephant seal, the sea- 

 lion, the fur-seal and many other kinds which 

 are just seals. 



L'nder the direction of their trainer. Captain 

 Woodward, seals and sea-lions perform diffi- 

 cult and interesting feats. Among their ac- 

 com]ilishments are the balancing of large air- 

 filled rubber balls, silk hats, billiard-cues, 

 lighted torches and other objects on their 

 noses. They readily pass balanced objects 

 from one to another without dropping them. 

 They can produce sounds in concert on vari- 

 ous musical instruments, such as horns, ban- 

 jos, drums and cymbals. Half a dozen 

 clown-caps tossed in rapid succession are 

 deftly caught by one animal on its nose, each 

 |)ointed cap-crown being the peg on which to 

 catch the next, until all are caught and 

 stacked on the sharp nose of a single sea-lion. 

 Misses seldom occur. 



The animals a])pear on the stage in more or 

 less orderly procession, considering the fact 

 that they are out of their natural element, and 

 occu])y the jiositions assigned them fiirectly in 

 the glare of the foot-lights. They bark in 

 chorus or keep silent as directed, and remain 

 on their pedestals until called forward. In 

 view of the fact that seals are aquatic 

 animals, without real legs to stand upon, 

 their performances as a whole may be con- 

 sidered a triumph of the art of training 

 animals. 



When the season at the Hippodrome closed 

 and the troupe of seals went on the road, two 

 of tlie seven sea-lion stars were left at the 

 .Aquarium for safe keeping. 



