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utilized as a food species. The largest examples of this fish which we have seen 

 were taken in Great Egg Harbor Bay in August; individuals measuring 5^ inches 

 in length were taken in the surf by hundreds, and weakfish were feeding on them 

 ravenously. In two hauls of a 2O-fathom seine we took here 54 weakfish. 



This species was not common in Great South Bay during the summer of 1898. 

 It was found at Blue Point Cove August 18, and young were obtained at Nichols's 

 Point September I. 



Dr. Smith records it as unusually abundant at Woods Hole, occasionally rather 

 uncommon. Found from August to late in fall. More numerous than any other 

 Anchovy. 



49. Anchovy (StolepJwrus mitcliilli Cuv. & Val.). 



Stolephorus mitchilli JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 248 ; BEAN, Bull. 

 U. S. F. C, VII,. 149, 1888 ; JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 446, 

 1896. 



Cape Cod to Texas on sandy shores ; the most abundant of the New York 

 species. It enters Gravesend Bay in May and remains till October. Locally known 

 as Anchovy and Whitebait. An excellent food fish and very important as the food 

 of larger fishes. 



It is very generally distributed in bays along the south shore of Long Island, 

 having been found abundant in Scallop Pond, Peconic Bay, in Mecox Bay, and 

 almost everywhere in Great South Bay from July to September, 1898. A specimen 

 taken at Fire Island has a lernaean parasite attached to it. At Woods Hole, Mass., 

 Dr. Smith reports it abundant, associated with 6". brownii. 



50. Round Whitefish (Coregonus quadrilateralis Richardson). 



Coregonus quadrilateralis JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 298, 1883 ; 

 BEAN, Fishes Penna., 66, pi. 26, fig. 47, 1893. 



This species is called Frost Fish in the Adirondacks ; other names are Meno- 

 minee Whitefish, Roundfish, Shad-waiter, Pilot-fish and Chivey, the last term applied 

 to the fish in Maine. 



The Round Whitefish is found in lakes of New England, sometimes running into 

 streams, the Adirondack region of New York, the Great Lakes and northward into 

 British America and Alaska. Its distribution has been extended by transplanting 

 on account of its great value as food for the Lake Trout and other large fish of the 

 Salmon family. It seldom exceeds a length of 12 inches and a weight of I pound. 

 Like some other species of Whitefish it spawns in shallow parts of lakes or ascends 



