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pilchard, both cousins. I am indebted to Mr 

 Bertram, Auditor-General of Jamaica^ for the 

 interesting information that baby tarpon are found 

 in landlocked waters in the West Indies. He has 

 met with them in many ponds in Westmoreland 

 (Jamaica) and also in the lakes of Antoine and 

 Levera in Grenada. This must obviously be the 

 work of waterfowl, which are known to carry the 

 spawn or fry of various fishes entangled in their 

 plumage and feet. Mr Bertram also told me that 

 tarpon up to a weight of fifty pounds may, after 

 heavy rain, be caught in the Black River and Milk 

 River (Jamaica), and that when "whitebait," the 

 youncr of the white-banded herring, is obtainable 

 for bait, much heavier examples are taken off Port 

 Royal. 



Whether, like the majority of the herrings, the 

 tarpon is a restless wanderer is not known, for it 

 has hitherto been studied only during its summer 

 sojourn in the Passes. Mr Leicester, keeper of the 

 lighthouse on Gasparel Island, Boca Grande, a 

 most intelligent and observant man, who has lived 

 on that island for years, told me that he had seen 

 tarpon in the Pass all the year round, though he 

 noticed both larger individuals and greater numbers 

 during the warmer months. Unless some unde- 

 termined change in temperature or other conditions 

 of the atmosphere and water prompts the larger 

 examples to show themselves more at the surface in 

 the summer, it is reasonable to regard their presence 

 as the result of migration. 



But all the tarpon's life-story is enveloped in 

 even greater mystery than that of the salmon. 

 The latter is, it is not to be denied, a baffling 



