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BLUEFIELDS. 
brown. Cuba possesses both species in common with 
Jamaica. 
CURIOUS FISHES. 
July 2nd, — It is very pleasant to stand upon the 
rocks and admire the beautiful fishes of many kinds 
and gay hues that play about at one’s feet, or explore 
the crevices and tortuous channels for food. My 
admiration was especially attracted this morning to 
one which I had not before seen, but which, as I had 
no means of capturing it, I had no opportunity of 
identifying. As well as I could judge it was of a 
percoid form, rather high, and about a foot in length. 
The back was marked with ring-spots of black on a 
pale ground, and the under parts were of a rich 
crimson. He played about in a narrow passage 
between the rocks for half an hour, occasionally 
nibbling at the projections of the rock, and now and 
then turning up his radiant belly to smell at some 
weed. He was evidently seeking his breakfast. This 
manner of feeding resembled the browsing of the 
SyaridcF. 
A lovely little Chaetodon (C. striatus) banded with 
black and rich yellow, plays about in the creek at 
low water ; occasionally picking something from the 
surfaces of the stones, and sometimes butting at them 
repeatedly, so as to rebound a few inches. This same 
propensity has been noticed in another hemisphere ; 
M. Freycinet, in his Voyage round the World, re- 
cords, that when wading over the coral reef encircling 
the island of Guam, in the Indian Archipelago, in 
search of mollusca^ he was assailed by a small Chseto- 
