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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The present paper is a record of all the species of fishes collected or observed at ] 
each locality visited, together with such field notes respecting them as seem to merit 
publication. The specimens preserved in alcohol have been examined by Dr. David “ 
S. Jordan, and the specific iudentiflcations of the same rest upon his authority. I am ^ 
also under special obligations to Mr. Louis Eettger, assistant in the museum of the | 
University of Indiana, for the arrangement in order of the species given in the main 
list. The type series of specimens is contained in the U. S. National Museum at I 
Washington. Partial sets have also been deposited in the museum of the Universitj^ 
of Indiana and in the museum of the Oiucinnati Society of Natural History. 
Two lists are given. The first is limited to those species of which specimens were j 
preserved and subsequently studied by Dr. Jordan and the writer. The second or , 
supplemental list includes the larger species taken and not saved because of their 
size, and also those which were observed but not captured. i i 
GALBORHINIDiB. I ! 
1. Eulamia limbata (Muller & Henle) (?). Spotted-fin Shark. \ | 
San Carlos Pass, west coast of Florida. Teeth very narrow, scarcely serrate ; firstj j 
dorsal, pectoral, and lobe of caudal tipped with black ; back dark ; belly abruptly! 
pale ; a blackish stripe along side below the boundary of the dark area, exten ding tot 
opposite pectoral; second dorsal very small, as large as anal. First dorsal well^ i 
behind pectoral, A very young specimen, 20 inches long, too young to be certainly.^ | 
identified. - j 
PRISTIDID.aS. ] I 
2. Pristis pectinatus Latham. Sawfish. > 
West coast of Florida. Abundant in all bays of the west coast where mud flats’ 1 
occur. I obsermi schools of young ones feeding in shallow water. They use their 1 j 
“saws” for stirring up the mud or sand of the bottom in order to obtain their food. ‘ j 
The motion of the saw is principally a forward and backward one. The young whenSi | 
born are nearly or quite 2 feet long, including the saw, which is about one-third their| ' 
length. I captured several at Big Gasparilla, with a dip net, in shallow water, fromt i 
.3 to 5 feet long, by entangling the net in their saws and towing them ashore. I also| ^ 
captured one on a shark line measuring fully 18 feet in length. The large ones fre-j i 
quently become entangled in the nets of fishermen and turtlers and do much damage] | 
in that way. ' ! 
RAJIDiE. 
3. Raja laevis Mitchill (f). Barn-door Skate. 
Stump Pass. Several embryos, apparently of this 
hitherto been recorded from any locality so far south, 
into the pass during a southwest gale, and when taken 
around very lively in a bucket of water. 
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species, although it has not; 
These embryos were blown 
from their egg cases swamj 
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