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Table Showing Number of Sword-fish Shipped from Newport, 1897-1908. 



Reproduction: In the Mediterranean it spa^nas in spring and early sum- 

 mer, probably in the open ocean. 



Food: Contents of the stomach show fishes Uke mackerel, menhaden, cod, 

 hake, and squids. 



Size: Ten feet, maximum sixteen feet. Young, 10mm and 37 mm., have 

 been found by Liitken (Ehrenbaum, Nordishes Plankton, 4, 1905, p. 

 35; description and picture of 37mm. young). Specimen measuring 

 two feet taken off Block Island, in July 1877 (Goode, 1880). Specimen 

 taken in West Indies by the " Challenger, " H inches long. (For the nat- 

 ural history of the swordfish see Goode, RejDort, U. S. Fish Com., VIII, 

 1880, 289: Liitken, translated by Bean, loc. cit. 375. Young described 

 by Gunther, are referred to in Amer. Nat. X, 1876, 239.) 



CABANGID^. The Pompaiios, Ainber-Fishes, etc. 

 92. Oligoplites saurus (Bloch and Schneider). Leather-jacket. 



Geog. Dist.: Both coasts of tropical America, common in West Indies, 

 north to Woods Hole and Menemsha Bight (Smith, 1898). Rare on 

 Long Island (Bean, 1903). 



