PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 

 Table of Measurements — Continued. 



Washington, iS^oi'fJHier 23, 1878. 



our TH£ OCCIJRREBirE OF THE OCEANIC BONITO, ORCYNCS PEIiAMYS, 

 (LIIVNE) POEY, IIV VINEYARD SOUND, MASSACIirSETTS. 



By VIIVAL N. EDU^ARDS. 



Mr. P. Stewart has caught between SO and lUO of them in his poand* 

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

 they have caught between 60 and 70. They catch them with a northerly 

 wind ; none with the wind off shore. Th ey w ill not live long in the 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 QIZZARH SHAD, DOROSOIHA CEPEOIA- 

 NVni HETERURUiVl, (RAF.) JORDAN. 



By SA17IVEI. liriLI»OT. 



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

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

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

 they 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 pounds are in Menemsha Bight, Martha's Vineyard. 



