V. REPORTS ON THE EXPEDITION TO BRITISH GUIANA 



OF THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY AND THE 



CARNEGIE MUSEUM, 1908. 



Report No. 3. The Marine Fishes. 1 



By Christian B. Blosser. 



As stated elsewhere, 2 the object of the expedition to British Guiana 

 was to secure fresh- water fishes. To that object other desirable things 

 were sacrificed. 



No special effort was made to collect marine fishes, but during a 

 stay of about twelve hours at the Island of St. Croix, Danish West 

 Indies, a short seine was used among the rocks of the coast, and fishes 

 were purchased in the market, and from a group of men fishing with 

 a large seine. The markets of others of the Windward Islands were 

 also visited. At Georgetown, British Guiana, the market was visited 

 regularly. Few marine fishes are brought to this market, and no 

 systematic effort was made to collect all the species which appeared. 



Mrs. C. Bjerg of St. Croix kindly secured a number of fresh-water 

 fishes from the Island of St. Croix, which are included in this list, in 

 which several rare species are enumerated, and a few new things are 

 described. 



The numbers refer to the Catalog of Fishes of the Carnegie Mu- 

 seum, and to that of the Indiana University. Unless otherwise stated 

 the specimens are from St. Croix. 



Galeid^e. 



1. Hypoprion signatus (?) Poey. Georgetown Market. C. M. 



Cat. No. 1292. 



Clupeid^e. 



2. Ilisha flavipinnis (Valenciennes). Georgetown Market. C. 



M. Cat. No. 1485. 



Hemiramphid^e. 



3. Hemiramphus brasiliensis (Linmeus). C. M. Cat. No. 1199. 



1 Contributions from the Zoological Laboratory of Indiana University, No. 103. 



2 Ann. Carn. Mus., Vol. VI, p. 4. 



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