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The following is Beimett’s account of Hemiramphus argenteus t 
”This fish is chiefly remarkable for possessing a prolongation 
of the lovrer jaw, in the form of a slender, black, and pointed bone, 
similar in form, and apparently in office, to the beak, or rostrian, 
continued from the upper jaw df the sword-fish. 
"Average length of the species 4 inches. Body long and 
compressed. Colour, unifonnly silver-whitej iris silvery. Pectoral 
fin long and slender; dorsal and anal placed far back and opposite each 
other. 
"Taken near the surface of the sea, in lat. 3® S. and 5® N., 
Pacific Ocean." 
Curiously Bennett’s figure does not show the beak black, 
such a conspicuous feature in preserved examples* 
11 examples. Jolo, Jolo Island. Electric Light. Februairy 8, 1908, 
Length 61 to 82 mm. All have complete beaks, black and with black 
lateral flaps. 
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19863, Maculabo Island, Electric Light, Jtme 13, 1909, Length 86 mm. 
One example. Nogas Point, Banay, February 3, 1908, Length 75 mm. Beak 
to eye equals rest of head. 
One example. Taal Ahchorage, Electric Light. February 20, 1909. Length 
92 mm. Beak projects beyond snout for space equal to ^ eye. 
One example. Tataan Passage, February 20, 1908, Length 116 mm. 
