May 12, 1906.] 
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Shooting the Four-Eyed Fish. 
MAny years ago, while tramping along the 
Trinidad side of the Gulf of Paria, in company 
with a friend, we came to a long, sandy beach 
some miles north of the celebrated Pitch Lake. 
and there for the first time I saw schools of 
fishes, apparently about ten inches long, coming 
up with the advancing waves upon the beach, re- 
maining there for a second or two after the tide 
had retreated and then suddenly turning around 
and scuttling back. These strange movements 
excited my curiosity, and being unable to cap- 
ture them in any other way, I took my gun, 
which I fortunately had with me, and fired at 
an incoming school, killing three of them. Upon 
taking these up I immediately recognized in 
them a species of the remarkable four-eyed fish 
(Anableps tetropthalmus), previously only known 
as an inhabitant of the coast of Guiana. 
Evidently, then, this development of the so- 
called four-eyes has relation to this peculiarity 
of habits, but as my stay was necessarily limited, 
I could not enter upon an extensive investigation 
at the time as to what was the exact reason of 
the habit, whether in search of the minute cru- 
taceans that are to be found unon the beach, or 
for some other reason. The species of Anableps 
is peculiar to tropical America. There are three 
well-defined species, two occurring along the 
northern coast of South America and extending 
to Trinidad, and one living along the western 
coast of Central America. They are members 
of the family of Cyprinodonts, of which the com- 
mon killifishes of the United States are well 
known representatives, and are the largest of the 
family, attaining a length of ten to. twelve inches. 
The eyes are unique in that each one in divided 
into two parts by a horizontal, dark colored band 
of the conjunctiva, while the pupil is completely 
divided by a pair of lobes projecting from each 
side of the iris. The orbits are extended upward 
above the level of the head, so as to at once at- 
tract attention on account of their prominence. 
The four-eyed fish of the Pacific was one of the 
earliest species described by me, and was named 
Anableps dow1, in honor of Captain Dow, a fa- 
mous collector. Immediately after the descrip- 
tion some of its peculiarities were noted and pub- 
lished in the “Proceedings of the Academy of 
Natural Sciences” for Feb. 12, 1861, page 21. ’’Dr. 
Le Conte stated in regard to the species of Ana- 
bleps described in the Proceedings of last month 
by Mr. Gill, as 4. dowi, that he had seen it in 
great abundance, not only in the Bay of La 
Union, San Salvador, but in all the streams emp- 
tying into the Gulf of Fonseca, and also in the 
small. tributaries of the Rio Lempa, as far as the 
town of Vertud, a great distance from the ocean. 
The method of swimming is very peculiar; the 
fishes are seen in groups on the surface of the 
water, with their eyes projecting. They are 
easily alarmed and very active. They are known 
to the natives under the name of cuatro-oxos, in 
allusion to the transverse black band which di- 
vides the iris.” THEO, GILL. 

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