90 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



A specimen 5^ inches long, from Newport, is in the Museum of the 

 Academy of National Sciences at Philadelphia. (Jordan and Meek, 

 Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., 1885, 47.) Not otherwise recorded from New 

 England or New York. 

 Size: Seven inches. 



62. Exocoetus speculiger* (Linnaeus). Flying- fish. 



Geog. DiST. : Open seas, north to the Grand Banks, southern Europe and 

 Hawaiian Islands. Recorded from Vineyard Sound and Woods Hole 

 (Baird, 1873, and Smith, 1898), where it is sometimes common; in 

 Connecticut, from New Haven and Stonington (Lindsley, 1844). 



Season in R. I.: Specimen in U. S. National Museum, taken at Block 

 Island by U. S. Fish Commission, August, 1874. 



Reproduction: Some eggs obtained near Naples in June and July, 1894, 

 were identified as those of an exocoetine, and described by Raffsels. 

 They were fovmd attached to floating bodies by means of filaments 

 not unlike those of Scomberesox. (Gill, Report Smithson. Inst., 1904, 

 504.) 



Food: Carnivorous; feeding on small fishes, crustaceans, and such mol- 

 luscs as pteropods and janthinids. 



Rate of Growth: Young an inch long and upwards are often seen in mid 

 ocean. At Woods Hole, young 1^ to 4 inches in length are sometimes 

 taken in the seine in the harbor in the latter part of September and the 

 first of October. (Smith.) 



63. Cypsilurus heterurus (Rafinesque). Fhjing-fish. 



Geog. Dist.: Atlantic Ocean, common southward on both coasts, straying 

 northward to Banks of Newfoundland and to England. Recorded at 

 Woods Hole and Menemsha Bight (Smith, 1900). 



Season in R. I.: Specimen from Block Island, mentioned by Goode, 1879. 



Size: Fifteen inches. 



64. Cypsilurus furcatus (Mitchill). 



Geog Dist. : Common in warm seas, north to Cape Cod and Mediterranean. 



Season in R. I.: Two specimens from Newport, one 5^ inches, the other 

 six inches in length, are in the Museum of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences at Philadelphia. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1885, 61.) These 

 are apparently the specimens described by Jordan and Evermann, in 

 "The Fishes of North America." 



Size: Six inches. 



*Gill, Report Smithson. Inst., 1904, 505. 



