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Height of dorsal fiii 17.5 



Height of aual fin 15.5 



Length of caudal 3.5 



Base of caudal 19. 



Length of pectoral 1 1 .5 



Base of pectoral 3. 



The proposed specific name tnakiia is, according to 

 Mr. C. B.Wilson, of Honolulu, a native name of the 

 fish, and signifies " the source from which the Bonito 

 and Albicore sprung in after ages." The specimen of 

 which the above is a description is now in the Museum of 

 the Leland Stanford Jr. University. The University is 

 under obligations to Mr. Chas. B. Wilson, of Honolulu, 

 for this valuable contribution. The fish was caught 

 January 25, 1893, by Mr. Fliel Kapu, at the mouth of 

 Pearl Harbor, and was frozen in ice and sent to the 

 University by Mr. Wilson. It arrived in an excellent 

 state, which allowed me to make a study of it while it 

 was still fresh. It was immediately drawn in colors by 

 Miss Anna L. Brown. In answer to a letter of inquiry, 

 Mr. Wilson gave me the following interesting account of 

 the fish and its capture : 



" It was taken in shallow water three or four feet deep. 

 It is a deep-sea fish by habit. It was seen by a party of 

 fishermen in a canoe going from shore to a deep-sea fish- 

 ing ground, when they were not more than a hundred 



feet from the beach near the entrance to Pearl Harbor, 



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Oahu. The man who first saw it, drew the attention of 

 the leader of the fishing party to the appearance of this 

 strange object close to the canoe, at the surface of the 

 water. The leader told him to ' hit it with his paddle,' 

 but the man refused, saying he was afraid that it was an 

 ' Akua ' (Spirit or Deity). The leader himself then hit 

 it with his paddle on the side of the head, when it imme- 

 diately shot off in a semi-circular path, through the break- 



