THE SHORE FISHES. 
INTRODUCTION. 
Tus fishes which form the basis for the present report were collected from 
the following localities: — Acapulco, Mexico; Perico, Naos, and Toboguilla 
islands in Panama Bay; the shores and markets of Panama City; the Galapagos 
Islands (principally at Wreck Bay, Chatham Island); in Cook and La Perouse 
bays and along shores of Easter Island; Manga Reva (principally in Port 
Rikitea and on the outer reef); and from dredge hauls taken along the coast of 
southern California, Mexico, Central America, Peru, and the open seas en route 
to the above mentioned island groups which yielded a few pelagic forms. 
As would be expected from places so widely separated the faunas are more 
or less distinct. An examination of the list of species as represented by the 
collection reveals the following points: — 
1. The fauna of the Galapagos is quite similar to that of Mexico and 
Central America. 
2. The fauna of Easter Island (represented by twenty-two species not 
taken at any other point visited) seems to be different from that of its nearest 
neighbor, Manga Reva (Paumotus) and appears closest to that of Norfolk 
Island. 
3. With one exception (Mapo soporator) none of the forty-two species from 
Manga Reva was taken at any other point visited. Its fauna is naturally 
similar to that of the other islands of the Paumotu Archipelago. 
Unless otherwise stated, proportional measurements of length of head and 
depth of body are expressed in terms of length without the caudal, and the 
others in terms of length of head measured from tip of snout to posterior edge 
of opercle. In the scale counts in longitudinal series, the total number of trans- 
verse rows above the lateral line has been counted and only the fully developed 
seales at the base of the caudal included. 
