EXTENSION OF THE RECORDED RANGE OF CERTAIN PISHES. 
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We have carefully examined the specimens of C. plumheus and C. clissimilis in the 
National Museum, and have instituted comparisons between them and our fish. We 
assign our specimens to this species chiefly because of the relatively large scales and 
the terminal moutli; some of the fish before us have as few as fifty- five scales. 
We are not aware that this fish has heretofore been detected in any part of the 
United States east of the Adirondacks. It has recently, however, been taken near 
St. John, New Brunswick, although specimens from that province in theU. S. National 
Museum differ from ours, in having a more inferior moutli, smaller head, and much 
smaller eye. The fish are larger than ours (4 to 6 inches long), and some of the dif- 
ferences noted may be due to this circumstance. 
Our fish bears a close resemblance to the species recently described* by Dr. Jordan 
from the Frazer Eiver, B. 0., and named C. greeni. The new species differs from the 
Maine specimens chiefly in having a broader head, a more curved profile, and a 
smaller eye. 
3. Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill). Chtih; Horned Dace. 
Western Massachusetts is the ascribed eastern limit of distribution of this com- 
mon species.t While the closely related fallflsh {S. bullaris) is known to range as 
far north and east as Quebec, we are not aware of the rejiorted occurrence of 8. 
dtromaculatus in any part of Maine, and therefore judge that its recognized habitat 
is extended by the taking at Freeport, Maine, of many specimens, in Sei>tember, 
1892, and November, 1893. In the mill stream before alluded to, the horned dace 
was found to be common, in company with the fishes previously named. 
4. Clupea pseudohispanica (Poey). Spanish Sardine. 
The addition of this fish to the fauna of the United States dates from 1882. In 
March of that year. Prof. Jordan took four specimens at Pensacola, Florida.^: An ex- 
ample was also obtained later by Mr. Silas Stearns from the stomach of a red snapper 
caught on the banks off Pensacola.§ The fish is abundant in Jamaica, Cuba, and 
elsewhere in the West Indies, and its occurrence on the Florida coast Avas to have 
been expected and is perhaps not unusual; its small size and its inutility as food, 
however, put it beyond the notice of our fishermen, and place on ichthyologists the 
necessity for its detection on our shores. Prof. Jordan states that the resemblance of 
the fish to the European sardine {Chvpea inlchardus) is very striking, and tliat it is 
consequently known among the Cuban fishermen as sardina de Es])ana. 
On October 3 and 4, 1892, large numbers of these fish were seined along the 
shore at Woods Holl and Menimsha Bight, Mass., by Mr. Viual N, EdAvards, of the 
Fish Commission. Numerous siiecimens then taken are in the collections of the Fish 
Commission and National Museum. For the piuqjose of establishing the identity of 
these fish, we iiresent the following descriiAtion : 
Body elongate, back rather broad and round. Head 4 to 44 in length; maxillary 
reaching about to vertical through anterior margin of pupil, 24 in head; mandible 
joining preoperculum slightly in advance of pupil. Eye 4 in head, less than snout. 
Gill-rakers slender, their length about two-thirds diameter of eye, about 45 below the 
angle of first arch. Depth about equal to length of head. Dorsal origin much nearer 
*Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1893, p. 313. 
t Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. — Manual of the A^ertehrates. 
IProc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, p. 247. § Ibid., 1884, p. 33. 
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