Vol. XXV, pp. 165-176 December 24, 1912 



PROCEEDINGS 



HI THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 





NATURAL HISTORY NOTES ON SOME BEAUFORT^ 



N. C, FISHES, 1910-1911. 



No. II. Tki.kostomi. 



BY E. W. GUDGER. 

 [Published hero by permission of the commissioner of Fisheries.] 



In the first paper of this series, printed on pages 141-156 of 

 this volume, there were recorded the observations made during 

 1910 and 1911 on the Elasmobranchs of the region about Beau- 

 fort, X. C. The present paper deals with the teleost fishes and 

 consists, like the first one, of notes on the personal observations 

 of the writer together with data obtained from various other 

 reliable sources. 



Acknowledgment is gratefully made to Mr. Russell J. Coles 

 and to the- assistance received from Dr. Hugh M. Smith's 

 'Fishes of North Carolina." The following notes, in many 

 casrs, only corroborate and extend the data presented so admir- 

 ably l»y Dr. Smith. 



Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus). 

 GAR-PIKE. 



Two "shell gars" were taken by the writer during the summer of 1910, 

 i iiio nf which was skinned. No measurements were made of the fresh 

 fish, but the dried skin is :; feet o 3 , inches long. 



In seining at the Narrows during the latter part of May, 1911, the 

 writer took no fewer than in gar pikes. The first of these, a female, was 

 42 inches long from ti j » of snoul to tip of caudal I'm, ami M}4 inches in 

 circumference. Autopsy showed the ovary, the right lobe of which was 

 103^, the left 11)4 inches long, to lie crowded with hlnish-green eggs. 

 The stomach contained 2 partly decomposed fish aboul 8 inches long. In 



* Both the gars referred in " Notes for 1909 " * 1 i » -* 1 during the winter of L909-10. No 

 record, however, was made of either time or cause. They were in captivity in the 

 laboratory for more than a year, ami probablj for more than 15 months. 



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