ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
93 
BUTTERFLY FISH (CHAETODON OCELLATUS ) 
The butterfly fish has a black band across the head. 
Photograph by ‘Elwin R. Sanborn. 
For man}' days there was a dead calm which 
stopped all circulation of the almost landlocked 
little harbor so that the excessive heat caused 
the water to reach a hitherto unheard of record 
91.4° Fahr. This made it most difficult to ac¬ 
climatize the fishes that had been taken in 
deeper, moving water. 
In spite of these adverse conditions, 856 
specimens were landed at the New York Aquari¬ 
um in good condition, embracing more than sixty 
species. Two of these are new to the Aquarium; 
one the bone-fish ( Albula vulvas') much sought 
for by tropical anglers, proportionately much 
more gamey than the tarpon, although it rarely 
exceeds a length of three feet; the other 
(Brachygenys chrysargyreus) a very beautiful 
fish striped longitudinally with gold and silver. 
It is a close relative of the grunts ( Haemulidae ) 
and in general form resembles them. Among 
the rarer species included in the collection was 
a beautiful plum-colored parrot fish ( Pseudo¬ 
scams plumbeus). A specimen of the round 
sting ray ( Urolophus jamaicensis) two days 
after arrival gave birth to two young ones. 
These are so well developed at birth as to re¬ 
semble the parent in all essential points. 
An unusually fine collection of butterfly fishes, 
blue angels, French angels, Townsend’s aiigel 
and golden grunts were also brought through 
successfully. The bulk of the collection con¬ 
sisted of the more common coral reef fishes such 
as morays, grunts, hog-fish, parrot fish, slippery 
dicks, beau-gregory, sargeant majors, snappers, 
surgeon-fish, puffers, hinds, groupers, Jewfish, 
nigger-fish, etc. L. L. M. 
Shipping Live Fishes to Market. —An innova¬ 
tion in the fish trade ’was made in June, 1923, 
when 6,000 pounds of live fishes from Lake 
Huron reached Fulton Market, New York City. 
The fishes, consisting chiefly of large-sized 
lake trout, were taken in pound nets at Little 
