360 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BERMUDAS. 



Bermudas. (It is abundant in the ditches of the marsh 

 immediately below the residence of Thomas F. J. Tucker, 

 Esq., in Devonshire Parish.)" 



" Sygnathus jonesii. 

 " D. 18. Segment, 17 + 32. 



" Allied to Sygnathus nitidus, and, perhaps, to Sygnathus 

 crinitus, but without plaments on the head ; a ridge runs 

 across the operculum, but without reaching to its end. 

 Head and snout, short ; the latter somewhat bent upwards, 

 shorter than the post-orbital portion of the head, keeled 

 above, but without spines in the median line. Inter- 

 orbital space, concave ; crown occiput with a median 

 keel. Keels of the body, sharp, but not spiny ; the 

 lateral keel of the trunk passes into the lower keel of 

 the tail. Tail, twice as long as the trunk without head. 

 The base of the dorsal fin is not raised above the level 

 of the back ; it occupies six segments, of which the first 

 is the anal segment. Caudal, very short, blackish-brown ; 

 upper half of the trunk with three, upper half of the tail 

 with seven, equidistant whitish cross bands. 



" A single female specimen has been sent by Mr. Jones 

 from the Bermudas. It is four and a half inches long. 

 (This specimen, with four or five others, was taken on the 

 south shore of Devonshire Parish, under stones at low 

 water.)" 



The first of these little fish — Futidulus bermudce — is 

 known in Bermuda as the " Killie Fish," or " Bermuda 

 Minnow," and is found in abundance in the brackish 

 ditches near Spanish Point, and in the muddy bays or 

 mangrove swamps about St. George's. 



Colonel Drummond-Hay, who made a drawing of this 

 fish in 1848, states that it rarely attains a greater length 

 than three or three and a half inches. 



