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and Medway Rivers, and at the mouths of streams flowing into St. Margaret and Mahone 

 Bays.'* They have also been taken repeatedly as far offshore as the vicinity of Emerald 

 Bank, the seaward slope of Banquereau Bank and Sable Island Bank, Lahave Bank, 

 Browns Bank, in the deep gully between the latter and Georges Bank,'* and on the con- 

 tinental slope off Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. Lampreys are to be expected any- 

 where around the shores of the Bay of Fundy, they being recorded from salt water in the 

 St. Andrew's region; adults were plentiful in the St. John River and its tributaries, for- 

 merly, and no doubt still are, for small ones were found in the stomach of a Lota maculosa 

 in Grand Lake, St. John River system, in the winter of 1926-27. They spawn in the An- 

 napolis and Petitcodiac River systems, as well as in the Shubenacadie River, where larvae 

 have recently been reported as abundant.'" 



They have been reported as being present at many localities along the northwestern 

 and western shores of the Gulf of Maine and as breeding not only in the Penobscot, Saco 

 and Merrimack River systems, but in various smaller streams, including the Exeter River, 

 where they still occur in large numbers, the Lamprey River, a tributary of Great Bay, 

 New Hampshire, and the Parker River in northern Massachusetts ;°^ no doubt they occur 

 in other rivers for which there is no published record. In southern Massachusetts they 

 still run in some numbers in several of the small streams tributary to Buzzards Bay,°^ and 

 in the Taunton River system.*' There is one record for Nantucket. 



They are taken occasionally in pound nets in the Woods Hole region, in Narragansett 

 Bay where a few breed in the Taunton River, and in Long Island Sound; they spawn in at 

 least one of the small Long Island tributary rivers which empty into Long Island Sound." 

 The Connecticut and Housatonic Rivers were famous in past years for their runs of Lam- 

 preys, although their passage today is barred by dams. Some still enter the Hudson, and 

 there are records of their presence in the Raritan drainage system. They are common in the 

 Navesink and Swimming Rivers tributary to Sandy Hook Bay;"" and within the Bay itself 

 large and small specimens are taken from time to time in pound nets, or found there at- 

 tached to fish ; they are also taken in Gravesend Bay at the mouth of New York Harbor. 



There are numerous recent records for Lampreys, large and small, all along the coast 

 of New Jersey, north to south ; also up the Delaware River system to the northern part of 

 Pennsylvania in the Erie River. Although we find no published record of them for the 

 coastal sector between the mouths of Delaware and Cljesapeake Bays, Lampreys no doubt 

 occur in this area, for the Bay is a center of abundance for them, with Lampreys recorded 



88. Information gathered for us by A. G. Huntsman and R. A. McKenzie of the Biological Board of Canada. 



89. Specimens in the U.S. National Museum. 90. Information gathered for us by A. G. Huntsman. 



91. Personal communication from Q. A. Arlin, Coastal Warden. 



92. Wareham River, Agawam River, Red Brook; also reported in Cape Cod Canal; personal communication from 

 H. G. Smith, Coastal Warden. 



93. Palmer River, personal communication from E. H. Trask, Coastal Warden. 



94. The Nissiquague, Hussakoff (J. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist., /j, 1913:323). 



95. See especially the account by Hussakoff (Amer. Nat., ^6, 1911: 72) of the nest-building of the Sea Lamprey 

 in the Navesink. 



