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Eight days were demoted to crar Galapagos investigations, July 24-31* 
In these scientifically famous islands we made our best hauls of fish; a num- 
ber of rarities such as the grey thread- fin bass* C rati nug agassigj i, and the 
southern barracuda, Sphyraen a idiaste s, were taken on several occasions* The 
former looked like a good pan fish, 4s no one seemed to have any information 
on the subject and nothing on the score could be found in any publications 
available on board, the President had one prepared for his mess. It was very 
good eating* 
The heaviest y@llow«fin tuna taken weighed 56 pounds* Wahoo were 
plentiful off Hood Island and gave those of the party who tangled with them 11 a 
run for their money * H The largest weighed 34 pounds* Three were brought back 
to the Museum for study, as the institution had only a mounted specimen of this 
large game fish* 
Together with the wahoo* five species of fish were secured in the 
Galapagos that had never been represented in the study collections of the Museum* 
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The other^species were the Pacific amberjack* S eriola colbumi » of which the 
heaviest weighed 28 pounds; the round-herring, Strumeus mieronus ; a pilot fish, 
Ibydi xodo n freminvillei : and a demoiselle, Nexilosus albemarleus * The Pacific 
amber jacks constitute the first definite record of tills species from the 
Galapagos Islands* 
We visited the famed albatross colony on Hood Island, and found a 
number of birds at this late date, July 28* still incubating eggs and others 
with fledgling young* Two days before we noted two pairs of flightless cormor- 
ants on Albemarle, the one with eggs under one of the birds, the other pair 
attending two half grown young* It is believed that these observations extend 
the known egg dates for both species of birds* 
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