THE SEA FISHERIES OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA, 35 
this region up to the present time, whether done in connection with 
the U. 8S. Fish Commission or independently. The special dates and 
localities are given in each case.* 
Lophius Americanus DeKay. Goosefish; Angler. 
A specimen caught in Vineyard Sound, in June, contained crabs, 
Cancer trroratus ; and squids, Loligo Pealii. Another contained a me- 
dium-sized skate. Still another a large common flounder; bluefish 
(Pomatomus saltatrix) ; fragments of clam shells (Mya arenaria) ; crabs ; 
and eel-grass. Wood’s Holl, 1871; E. Palmer. 
Specimens taken in the rivers with herring had their stomachs filled 
with that fish. A. E. Verrill, Eastport, Me., 1871. 
Alutera Schepfii. (Walb.) Goode & Bean.  File-fish. 
A specimen taken at Wood’s Holl, in August, contained a quantity 
of the finely-divided stems and branches of a Hydroid, Pennaria tiarella. 
Pseudopleuronectes Americanus Gill. Winter Flounder. 
A specimen caught at Wood’s Holl, in August, contained large num- 
bers of Bulla solitaria. 
Specimens taken, in 1871, in the rivers about Eastport, were filled 
with herring. A. EH. Verrill, 1871. 
Lophopsetta maculata Gill. Spotted Flounder. 
Numerous specimens caught in seines at Great Egg Harbor, April, 
1871, contained large quantities of shrimp, especially Mysis Americana 
and Crangon vulgaris ; the prawn, Palemonetes vulgaris ; numerous 
Amphipods, Gammarus mucronatus ; one contained a Gebia affinis. 
Cheenopsetta ocellaris Gill. Ocellated Flounder ; Summer Flounder. 
Several specimens taken in the seines at Great Egg Harbor, New 
Jersey, in April, contained large quantities of shrimp, Crangon vulgaris 
and Mysis Americana; one contained a full-grown Gebia affinis. 
One caught at Wood’s Holl, June 6, contained twenty-six specimens 
of Yoldia limatula; and numerous shells of Nucula proxima, Angulus 
tener, and Tritia trivittata; and Amphipod Crustacea belonging to the 
genus Ampelisca. 
Specimens caught at Wood’s Holl, in July, contained rock-crabs, 
Cancer irroratus; Pinnixa cylindrica; Crangon vulgaris; squids, Loligo 
Pealii; Angulus tener; Nucula proxima; and many ane ee Echi- 
narachnius parma. 
August 16. One specimen contained a scup and one squid (Lolig go) ; 
Sept. 1. Another specimen had two small crabs and two minnows. 
Wood’s Holl; E. Palmer, 1871. 

* This article is essentially the same as the one contributed by Prof. A. E. Verrill 
to the report of U. S. Fish Commission of 187172. Iam indebted to Mr. R. Rathbun 
for rearrangivg it and adding notes by Professor Verrill made at Eastport, Me., either 
in 1871 or previous years, and notes of the fishes found as food in the stomachs of 
other fishes at Wood’s Holl in 1871 by Dr. E. Palmer, Professor Verrill havi ng enu- 
merated in his report only the invertebrate contents. 
