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conspicuous by their habit of swimming and splashing on the surface.""* However, 

 most of the records of it for the coast of New Jersey i" have been based on odd spe- 

 cimens only. Although the Paris Museum also has (or had) seven specimens from New 

 York/5« this Ray has been reported only once from southern New England (Buzzards 

 Bay, Massachusetts), its farthest known outpost in this direction. 



We have yet to learn the latitudinal range of Z). say in the southern hemisphere; 

 while Rio de Janeiro is the most southerly locality where its presence has been posi- 

 itively established, nominal records of Z). pastinaca from Uruguay and from northern 

 Argentina may have been based on it, in part at least (see Doubtful References, p. 388). 



Synonyms and References: 



Raja say Lesueur, J. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., I, 1817: 42, pi. not numbered (descr., color, ill., New Jersey). 



Trygon sayi Miiller and Henle, Plagiost., 1841 : 166 (descr., meas.; Martinique, Santo Domingo, New York); 

 Castelnau, Anim. Nouv. Rares Amer. Sud, Poiss., 1855: 103 (listed, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Gill, Proc. 

 Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., Addend., 1861: 62 (listed Atlant. coast N. Amer.); Abbott, in Cook, Geol. N. 

 J., Append. E, 1868: 829 (listed, New Jersey);^" Poey, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 2, 1868: 456 (color, 

 dermal armature, embryo, Cuba); in Gundlach, An. Soc. esp. Hist, nat., 10, 1881: 350 (listed, Cuba, 

 Jamaica, Puerto Rico with query); Stahl, Fauna Puerto Rico, 1883: 81, 167 (listed, Puerto Rico; not 

 seen); Jenkins, Johns Hopkins Univ. Stud. Biol., 4, 1887: 84 (nos., Beaufort, N.Carolina); Jordan, 

 Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1885), 1887: 800 (listed, S. Atlant. and Gulf coasts U.S.); Henshall, Bull. 

 U. S. Fish Comm., 9, 1891: 384 (nos., Florida); Lonnberg, Oefvers. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Forh., 57, 

 1894: 112 (listed, Florida); Smith, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1895), 1896: 175 (listed, Biscayne Bay, 

 Florida); Wilson, Amer. Nat., 24, 1900: 355 (nos., Beaufort, N.Carolina); Norman and Fraser, Giant 

 Fishes, 1937: 72 (range). 



Myltobatis {>) say DeKay, Zool. N. Y., 4, 1842: 376 (New Jersey by ref. to Lesueur, 18 17). 



Myliobatis say Storer, Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci., N. S. 2, 1846: 514 (diagn.. New Jersey by ref. to Lesueur, 

 1817). 



Trygon {Trygon) sayi Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Poiss., J, 186;: 603 (descr.. New York, Martinique, Haiti, Brazil). 



Trygon centroura Yarrow, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. [29], 1877: 216 (ident. probable because of nos., Beau- 

 fort, N. Carolina). 



Dasibatis sayi Garman, BuU. U. S. nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 69 (descr., color, range, cf. European D. pastinaca). 



Dasyatis sayi^^^ Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 48 (descr., S. Atlant. and Gulf coasts 

 U. S.); True, List Vert. Anim. S.Carolina, in Handb. S.Carolina, 1883: 260 (listed, S.Carolina); 

 Henshall, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 14, 1895: 210 (hsted, S. and W.Florida); Evermann and Bean, 

 Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1896), 1898: 239 (nos., Indian R., Florida); Evermann and Kendall, Rep. 

 U. S. Comm. Fish. (1899), 1900: 50 (descr., color, Florida); Evermann and Marsh, Bull. U. S. Bur. 

 Fish., 20 (i), 1902: 65 (descr., Puerto Rico); Bean, Bull. N. Y. St. Mus., 60, Zool. 9, 1903: 55 (descr., 

 color. New York to Florida and Brazil); Linton, BuU. U. S. Bur. Fish., 24, 1905: 346 (stom. contents, 

 parasites, Beaufort, N. Carolina); Ribeiro, Arch. Mus. nac. Rio de J., 14, 1907: 189, 210 (descr., photo, 

 refs., New York to Bahia); Smith, N. C. geol. econ. Surv., 2, 1907: 44 (descr., food, season, nos., danger 

 to fishermen, N. Carolina); Fowler, Rep. N. J. Mus. (1907), 1908: 132 (descr., color, size, New Jersey); 

 Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 62, 1910: 473 (descr., in part, but not Delaware Bay spec, which was 

 subsequently refd. by him [Proc. biol. Soc. Wash., JJ, 1920: 146] to D.hastata, equals D.americana 

 Hildebrand and Schroeder 1928); Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 62, 1910: 599 (listed. New Jersey); 



148. Hamilton and Smith, Copeia, 1941: 175. 



149. Cape May, Sea Island City, Atlantic City, Barnegat Inlet, Egg Harbor, and Beesleys Point; see also Study Material, 

 p. 378). 



150. Miiller and Henle (Plagiost., 1841: 167). These specimens formed part of the collection of some 200 fishes that 

 were sent back from the vicinity of New York between 1815 and 1823 by the French traveller Jacques Gerard 

 Milbert. For an account of his journeys in the northeastern United States and Canada, see his Itinerarie Pittoresque 

 du Fleuve Hudson ... 2 vols., Paris, 1828. 



151. Spelled sayii. 152. More commonly and correcdy spelled say. 



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