Three American eels (Anguilla rostrata) with unusually large eyes, obtained from the collections of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (UMMZ 80616), are described. Two are males, 495 and 521 mm in total length, and the third, probably of the same sex, had an estimated length of 752 mm. The horizontal diameter of the eye was equal to the inter-orbital width in the smallest specimen, while in the two others it was greater. These fish, captured in 1926, came from a sample of elvers liberated into Sherman Lake, Michigan, about 35–40 years earlier.