1879.] Notes on Some Fishes of the Coast of California. 299 
mately synchronal. We find that the method of inhumation 
practiced by this local clan or branch of the tribe did not differ 
materially from that of other divisions situated in other portions 
of the State. The bodies were generally extended at full length 
from east to west, sometimes encased in rude stone cists, but 
more frequently laid to rest with no covering except the vest- 
ments which had been worn in life. Occasionally, as we have 
seen, under the influence of civilization, the departed were encased 
in wooden coffins, furnished the tribe undoubtedly by their 
European neighbors. 
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NOTES ON SOME FISHES OF THE COAST OF CALI- 
FORNIA. No.1. 
BY W. N. LOCKINGTON, 
Slog accompanying notes are chiefly the result of periodical 
visits paid to the markets of San Francisco during the months 
of October, November and December, with the object of ascer- 
taining the comparative abundance of the various species, the 
localities where they are taken, their value as articles of food, 
etc., etc. 
Nö attempt at chtsaifcalioai is made, and in the generic names 
I have in most cases followed Günther with whose works I am 
better acquainted than with those of Gill. Sarda is substituted 
for Pelamys, which is also the title of a genus of Hydrophoid 
snakes, and Prof. Jordan informs me that the snakes have a prior 
right to it. 
The icthyology of the Pacific coast of North America is as yet 
far from being fully worked out; in many cases there is consider- 
able confusion of names, and little is known respecting the food, 
habits, spawning season, &c., of most of the species. 
Several rare and some probably new fishes have been brought 
to the markets this year, principally because the fishermen use 
` trawl-nets to a greater extent, and trawl to a greater depth than 
they were previously accustomed to do. 
Ambloplites interruptus Grd. Sacramento Rivet Perch.—This 
species is abundant along the lower course of the Sacramento 
and San Joaquin rivers, and in all the branches of those rivers 
that permeate the lowlands; and forms an important article of 
