94 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



Mm. Mm. Mm. 



July 23 10.7 August 6 37.8 Septembers 59.0 



July 27 19.0 August 8 41.8 September 14.. .. 62.8 



July 30 24.0 August 11 41.9 



August 3 31.4 August 15 45.2 



During July and August a great number of young of all sizes from f inch 

 (10 mm.) to 6 inches (150 mm.) are found in the lobster rearing cars: 

 July 23, 1908, 65 mm.; July 31, 1908, 100 mm.; August 1, 1908, 44 mm.; 

 August 6, 1908, 105 mm.; August 7, 1908, 77 mm. and 114 mm.; August 

 8, 1908, 149 mm. and 139 mm.; August 14, 1908, 65 mm.; August 15, 



1908, 37 mm.; August 21, 1908, 47 pipe-fish, ranging from 19 mm. to 

 33.7 mm.'', average, 28.8 mm. 



Other similar si^ecimens are taken in the seine through the summer: — August 

 10, 1908, 72 mm. and 155 mm.; August 13, 1907, seine at Rabbit Island, 

 specimen SO mm.; August 20, 1908, seine, Cornelius Point, fifteen speci- 

 mens average 139 mm.; ranging from 93 mm. to 187 mm.; September 2, 



1909, nine specimens were taken, averaging 88 mm., ranging from 80 

 to 145 mm. Since all sizes up to six inches in length are to be found, 

 and since the pipe-fish has such a long breeding season, it is probable 

 that all the sizes above mentioned are the young of the year. They 

 probably become mature when about a year old. 



References: 



1SS5: Ryder, Report, U. S. Fish Com., XIII, 508. 

 1906: GuDGER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIX, 447. 



71. Hippocampus hudsonius (De Kay). Sea-horse. 



Geog. Dist.: Atlantic coast, Cape Cod to Charleston, S. C. Recorded in 

 Massachusetts from Holmes Hole (Storer, 1S39 and 1853), Province- 

 town (Atwood, 1850), Massachusetts Bay (Goode and Bean, 1879), 

 Vineyard Sound (Smith, 1898). Not otherwise reported from New 

 England. Occur in moderate numbers on the New England and New 

 Jersey coast during the summer months; varies in abundance consider- 

 ably in different years (Bean). 



Habitat: In the eel-grass and sea- weed along shores and in salt marshes. 



Season in R. I.: Not common. Rarely found floating in gulfweed and 

 rockweed. Also sometimes taken on the bottom in shallow water. 

 Specimen taken in Greenwich Bay in the oyster tongs, September 29, 

 1909. Two others taken in the same locality during the fall of 1909, 

 one of which came up in a scallop dredge. 



