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Table of Measurements — Continued. 



Millim. 



lOOths. 



Caudal : 



Length of middle rays .. 

 Length of external rays . 



Pectoral 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Ventral : 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Brauchiostegals 



Dorsal 



Anal 



Caudal 



Pectoral 



Ventral 



Number of scales in lateral line 



Number of transverse rows above lateral line. 

 Number of transverse rows below lateral line. 



25 

 ca. 15i 



50 

 ca. 12 



VI 

 12 

 13 



XIII, 18,XII 



18 



II, 12 



ca. CO 



ca. 3J 



ca. 4 



\Y ASHiHGTOTS, 2^ovember 23, lb78. 



OX THE OCCFRRE^X'E OF THE OCEAIVEC BONITO, OROYNES PEI.AMYS, 



(EINJSE) POEY, IiV VINEYARD SOtJNlD, MASSACHUSETTS. 



By VINAL N. EDWAROS. 



Mr. P. Stewart has canglit between 80 and 100 of them in his pound* 

 in about three weeks. He caught 52 oue morning. In Luce's pound* 

 they have caught between GO and 70. They catch them with a northerly 

 wind; none with the wind oft" shore. They will not live long in tbe pound, 

 but will run themselves to death, and their brilliant blue color all fades 

 out as soon as they are dead. 



Wood's Holl, Mass., October 1, 1878. 



NOTES ON THE WESTERN OIKZARI> SHAI>, I>0R0S09IA CEPEDIA- 



NttJM HETERBJRUiTI, (RAF.) JORDAN. 



By SAMUEE. ^WII^MOT. 



Sir : I send you by post a small fish taken by one of our fishermen at 

 Saruia on Lake Huron. It was sent to me by oue of our officers, with a 

 request that I should let him know what sort of fish it was. It seems 

 tbey think it to be a young shad. Fish very similar in appearance to 

 this one have been known in Lake Ontario and other of our waters for 

 many years ; I recollect them forty years ago. They were not taken 

 numerously in those days, a few being captured at times in seines, and 

 sometimes in gill-nets, which were set out in very deep waters in the 

 lake for the purpose of taking salmon trout : those taken in the gill-nets 

 would be sometimes a pound in weight; the great run of them, however, 



"These pouutla are in Menemsha Bight, Martha's Vineyard. 



