BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 109 



Codfish taken off the coast of North Carolina. — Mr. E. G. 

 Blackford, of Fulton Market, New York, writing under date of Febru- 

 ary 19, 1885, says: "I had yesterday a codfish, weighing G| pounds, 

 that was caught off' the coast of North Carolina in shad nets." 



Price list of Hugo Mulertt, 507 Eace street, Cincinnati, 

 Ohio. — The following list is furnished under date of February 12, 1885: 



Common goldfish: 



Small and medium each . . $0 25 



Large do... 50 



Japanese goldfish : 



Fringetail, small andmedium $2 50 to 10 00 



Fantail, small and medium each.. 50 



Comet, small and medium do... 1 00 



Nymphe, small and medium do . . . 50 



Chinese paradise fish : 



Small (Macropodus) per pair.. 1 00 



Old enough to spawn do 5 00 



German carp (mirror, leather, and scale), young each. . 25 



German gold orfe, young (4 inches) do. . . 1 00 



German tench, young do . . . 



Blue and pumpkin-seed sunfish, medium do . . . 25 



Straw, moss, and black bass, small do.. . 50 



Yellow or ring perch, and rock bass, small .*. do. . - 



Black-nosed dace , do. .. 



Dogfish (mud dace) do.. . 25 



Black catfish and top minnows, small ._._.. do.. . 15 



Newts do... 20 



Tadpoles do... 5 



Snails per dozen.. 25 



Aquarium sand .' per quart.. 10 



Aquarium cement per pound.. 35 



Dip net each.. 15 



Dipping tube do... 25 



Cultivator do... 40 



Wiper do. .. 40 



Fish food per box . . 10 



Nymphsea odorata (flowers white), strong roots each. . 25 



Nymphsea flava( flowers yellow, foliage variegated), strong roots do... 50 



Nymphsea flava yearlings (fine for aquariums) do... 25 



Nyinphsea spharocarpa rubra (flowers carmine pink), strong roots do. . . 



Nelumbium luteum (seed) '. do.. . 10 



Nelumbium speciosum(seed) do... 25 



Nelumbium rubrum (seed) do... 25 



Nuphar advena (roots) '.. do . . . 50 



Aponogeton distachyon (strong roots) do . . . 2 00 



Limnocharishumboldtii do.. . 50 



Villarsia nyniphaeoides do... 25 



Trapa natans(seed) do... 25 



Hydrocharis cordifolia do... 25 



Sagittaria sagittifolia do... 5 



Sagittaria lancifolia do . . . 25 



Sagittaria natans do . . . 25 



Pontederia cordata do... 25 



