EXTENSION OF THE RECORDED RANGE OF CERTAIN FISHES. 
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We are uow able to extend tbe range of tliis species inncli farther north and east, 
namely, to W^oods IIoll, Mass. Among a collection of fishes made at that place by 
Mr. Yinal N. Edwards, of the U. S. Fish Commission, and recently forwarded to 
Washington, are three specimens of this mnllet taken July 1, 1892. The fish are 
typical in all respects. They are abont 1^- inches long and present the following fea- 
tures: Head, 3^-; depth, 3|; dorsal, iv-i,7 (or 8); anal, ii,9 (or 10); scales, 28 to 30. 
The ISTational Mnsenm also contains nnmerons specimens of this fish from Woods 
Holl, collected several years ago. 
8. Menidia beryllina (Cope). Silversides. 
This fish, originally described from the Potomac River at Washington, in 1866, 
was for a long time known only from that locality and from a single specimen. At 
the time of the issuance of the fifth revised edition of Ids ■‘Mannal,” in 1890, Prof. 
Jordan had knowledge of only the type example. The fish, however, is not nncoin- 
mon at Washington; and in the Lower Potomac, where it is found associating with 
Jlf. nofifin, it is qnite abundant.* According to Dr. Tarleton H. Bean,t it probably 
occurs in the Snsqnehanna River, but as yet it has not actually been observed there. 
In 1892 the range of the fish was extended in a southern direction by its capture at a 
number of places in Albemarle Sound, iSlorth Carolina, by one of the writers.! 
There is in the collection of the LT. S. Fish Commission a large number of speci- 
mens of this fish from Fel Pond and other jilaces in the vicinity of Woods Holl, Mass., 
and from the Acnshnet River, at Hew Bedford. They were taken in company with 
Menidia notata, and appear to be more nnmerons than the latter species in some local- 
ities. Examples from the Acnshnet River are larger and darker in color than those 
from Woods Holl. The specimens vary in length from 2 to 3^ inches. The head is 
contained in the length Avithont caudal from 4 to 4^- times; the depth is contained in 
length from 4^ to 5 times; the dorsal formula varies from V-i,8, to v-i,ll, the most 
common number of spines and rays being v-i,9; the anal formnla is i,15, i,16, or i,17. 
Scales, 38 to 41 in lateral series, 8 in transverse series. 
9. Phycis earllii Beau. EarlJ’s hake. 
This species was first brought to public notice in 1880 by Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, 
who based his description on three specimens obtained in the Charleston, S. C., 
market by Mr. R. Edward Earll. So far as we are informed, this fish has not nj) to 
this time been recorded from any locality north of Charleston. We therefore deem 
the circumstance of its occurrence nearly three degrees further north worthy of men- 
tion. On December 13, 1890, a party from the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Fish 
Hawlc landed at Hatteras Inlet, H. C., and found among the eelgrass on the beach 
inside the inlet a variety of fishes that had been left by the receding tide; among them 
were eels {Anguilla chrysypa), Avhiting [Menticirrlms albuynus), butterfish {Stromateus 
alejiidotus), sea-robins {Prionotus trihiiln.s), killifish {Fundvliis majalis), and a liv^e 
example of Phycis earllii., which was obtained and identified by W. C. Kendall. This 
specimen was somewhat larger than the types, being about 18 inches long; the fishes 
on which the species was founded were 13 to 14 inches in length. 
* Notes on a CollectLou of Fishes from the Lower Potomac River, Maryland, 
t Fishes of Pennsylvania. 
t Report on a Collection of Fishes from the Albemarle Region of North Carolina, jip- 192, 195. 
