252 KXI'KDITIOX OF TIIK ■ Al.liATHOSS," 1S<I9 lllOO. 



Seventoen spefiiiuMis from Marshall Islands, two of them, No. 08959, oioand 

 02 inches long from Wotje Atoll; fourteen of them (young) No. 09075 and one 



sninli niutilat(Ml s])(Mnnien, No. 09041 fi'oni Arliiio. 



Hemiramphus far (Forhkal). 



GcNTHKR, Fische (Icr SiuLsw, UlOf), 8. p. 3.57. 

 Esox far FoHSK.li,, Dpsoript. .Viiiiii., 177.5, p. ()7. 



No. Alls, a speemieiT 17 inches long and No. A119, M. C. Z. 29730, 15 inches 

 long from Vavau, Tonga Islands. 



Zenarchopterus dispar (Ci\ikr & V.\lenciennes). 



GtTNTHEH, Fische tier Siklsee, 1901), 8, p. o.j8. 



Hcmirhamphus dispar Gov. & V.-vl., Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1846, 19, p. 42 (.5<S), pi. 558. 



Znnarchoptcrus vaisiganis Jordan k Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisli., 190(), 25, ji. 208, fig. 11 



Two specimens, Nos. 09022. and 08925, M. C. Z. 29300, Oi and (S\l inches 

 long from Kusaie, Caroline Islands. Fourteen specimens, Nos. 08881 and 08993, 

 4| to 6? inches long, and No. 05943, in very bad condition, all from Suva, Fiji. 

 Two specimens, No. 09094, M. C Z. 29390 from C.uam, very bad condition, 

 unidentifiable with certainty, with longer bill than the others, but this seems 

 to l)e an age character. 



.\1I these specimens have ))een compared with sjiecimens in the U. S. 

 National Museum, with three specimens of Z. dispar from tlie Philippines, with 

 types and cotypes of Z. vaisiganis, with descriptions and figures in C'uvier & 

 Valenciennes, Bleeker, and in Day, and no differences can be detected 

 bj^ which to separate them from Z. dispar; Z. vaisiganis seems identical. 



EXOCOETIDAE. 



Exocoetus volitans Linnk. 



Syst. Nat. eti. 10, 175S, p. 31(). .Jordan & livERMANN, Bull. U. S. l''isli. Conuii., I'.M)5, 23, pt. 1, 

 f). 133, fig. 45. 



No. 05809, li's inches long from tow-net, open Pacific, .\lbatross, Sept. 8, 

 1899, 8 p. M., in Lat. 4°, 35' N., Long. 136°, 54' W. 



