No. 4.— NOTES ON NEW ENGLAND FISHES. 
BY HENRY W. FOWLER. 
While working over groups of fishes in the collection of the Acad- 
emy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, I have frequently found 
interesting specimens from New England waters. As some of these 
are rare or little known, it appears desirable to place such material 
on record with suitable exposition. 
The earliest and most important of the collections are those from 
Newport, Rhode Island, made by Samuel Powell fifty or si.xty years 
ago. Most of his specimens are still in the Academy and in good 
condition. Other early collections were made by Dr. J. H. Slack in 
Boston Harbor and on Martha's Vineyard. At Nantucket, Dr. 
Ulric Dahlgren and Mr. R. M. Abbott made a small collection, and 
the late Dr. Benjamin Sharp made extended collections, on most of 
which Dr. Sharp and the writer reported in 1904. At Bar Harbor and 
Mount Desert, in Maine, Dr. H. C. Chapman obtained a number of 
small collections during summer visits. At Castine, the late George 
B. Wood made a collection in 1907. At Woods Hole, small collections 
have been received from various sources, and at Katama Bay, on 
Martha's Vineyard, Dr. H. M. Smith secured a number of West 
Indian waifs from the Gulf Stream in 1900, some of which were pre- 
sented to the Academy. Mr. William J. Epting made several small 
collections of fresh-water fishes at Otter Pond Camp, Caratunk, 
Maine. During the summer of 1915, through the kindness of the 
Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game of the State of Maine, 
a permit was granted Mr. Epting to continue his collecting. Mr. 
Bayard Long secured a few fishes in Maine during the summer of 1916. 
Several other donations have been received and studied, but as many 
would be merely repetition of localities they are omitted. I also have 
examined a few fishes in the New Jersey State Museum at Trenton, 
through the kindness of its former Curator, Mr. S. R. Morse. 
In some cases species are represented by but a single example, some- 
times the only one so far obtained in New England waters. In most 
of such instances the original descriptions or records are very incom- 
plete and unsatisfactory, which has prompted me to redescribe and 
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