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dorsal and ventral spines, lodging in its captor's throat or wind- 

 pipe with fatal effect. 



On Chincoteague they were far less abundant. 



Syngnathus fuscus (Storer). 



A single example seined at Wallops, where it was hauled ashore 

 with bunches of "sea lettuce," and numbers of Crago septemspinosus, 

 Palcemonetes vulgaris, Chloridella empusa, Eupagurus longicarpus, 

 Ovalipes ocellatus and Callinedes sapidus. 

 Scomber scombrus Linnseus. 



Common off Chincoteague Shoals. Many bushels brought into 

 the town. 



Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus). 



Like the last, though only a few brought in. Small ones at 

 Chincoteague and Franklin City. 

 Poronotus triaoanthus (Peck). 



Very abundant. Chincoteague. 

 Roocus lineatus (Bloch). 



Several small ones at Chincoteague. 

 Morone americana (Gmelin). 



A few large ones at Franklin City. 

 Orthopristis chrysopterus (Linn^us). 



A few at Chincoteague. 



Stenotomus cbrysops (Linnaeus). 



Not many taken at Chincoteague. 

 Lagodon rhomboides (Linnaeus). 

 One at Chincoteague. 



Cynoscion regalis (Schneider). 



Franklin City, Chincoteague, Wallops. Common. 

 Cynoscion nebulosus (Cuvier). 



Chincoteague and Wallops. A few. 



Bairdiella chrysura (Laclpede). 



Common. Chincoteague, Frankhn City and Wallops. 



Scisenops ocellatus (Linnaeus). 



Several large ones at Chincoteague. 



Micropogon undulatus (Linnaeus). 



Very common. Chincoteague, Franklin City and Wallops. 

 Menticirrhus saxatilis (Schneider). 



Common. Chincoteague, Franklin City, Wallops. 



