42 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
Other specimens, opened at various times, show that this fish is a very 
general feeder, eating all kinds of small Crustacea, Annelids, bivalve 
and univalve mollusks, &e. 
Centropristis fuscus. Black Bass; Sea Bass. 
Specimens caught in Vineyard Sound, June 10, contained the common 
crab, Cancer irroratus; the mud-crab, Panopeus Sayi; three species of . 
fishes. 
Another, caught May 25, contained a squid, Loligo paliida. 
July 27.—Ten specimens were opened and found to contain seup 
(Stenotomus argyrops) and squeteague (Cynoscion regalis). 
September 5.—One specimen contained two butterfish (Poronotus tria. 
caythus) and two chogsets (Tautogolabrus adspersus). 
Roccus lineatus Gill. Striped Bass; Rockfish, or ‘¢ Rock.” 
At Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, April, 1871, several specimens, 
freshly caught in seines, with menhaden, &c., contained Crangon vul- 
garis (shrimp) in large quantities. 
A specimen caught at Wood’s Holl, July 22,1872, contained a large 
mass of *sea-cabbage,” Ulva latissima, and the remains of a smal] 
fish. 
Specimens taken at Wood’s Holl, August, 1871, contained crabs, Can- 
cer irroratus; and lobsters, Homarus americanus. 
Morone americana Gill. White Perch. 
Numerous specimens caught with the preceding at Great Egg Har- 
bor, New Jersey, contained Crangon vulgaris. ; 
Pomatomus saliatrix Gill. Bluefish ; Horse-mackerel. 
Specimens caught at Wood’s Holl, in August, frequently contained 
squids, Loligo Pealii; also various fishes. 
Off Fire Island, Long Island, August, 1870, Mr. 8. I. Smith saw blue- 
fishes feeding eagerly on the free-swimming males (heteronereis) of 
Nereis limbata, (p. 318,) which was then very abundant. 
Fundulus pisculentus Cav. & Val. Minnow. 
Specimens caught in July, at Wood’s Holl, contained large numbers 
of Melampus bidentatus, unmixed with other food. 
Clupea elongata LeS. Sea Herring. 
Specimens taken in Vineyard Sound, May 20, contained several 
shrimp, Crangon vulgaris, about 1.5 inches long; Mysis americana, and 
large numbers of an Amphipod, Gammarus natator; also small fishes. 
At Eastport, Me., and Grand Manan, the principal, if not the only, 
food of the herring in summer is a species of Thysanopoda, and one or 
two species of Mysis. These species are associated together, and move 
in large schools; they are known among the fishermen as shrimp. The 
food of the herring caught out in the bay by means of seines, and of — 
those trapped in the weirs in the harbor, was of the:same character for — 
both. A. E. Verrill, 1871. 
