LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PLATES. FACING PAGE. 



1. Biological laboratory of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries in Beaufort Harbor, erected 



in 1902. 



Boating a shad seine, Albemarle Sound 1 



2. Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrhynchus) 8 



3. Branch herring; goggle-eye (Potnolobus pseudoharengus) . Male 122 



4. Glut herring; May herring; blue-back {Pomolobus cestivalis) 124 



5. Shad (Alosa sapidissima) 126 



6. Landing a shad seine, Albemarle Sound. 



Splitting and salting herring at a seine fishery on Albemarle Sound 128 



7- Flier (Centrarchus macropterus) • 232 



8. Banded sun-fish (Mesogonistius chatodon) 238 



9. Blue-gill; blue joe {Lepomis incisor). Female 242 



10. Large-mouth black bass; Welshman {Micropterus salmoides) 246 



11. Yellow perch; red-fin; Englishman {Perca flavescens) 250 



12. Striped bass; rock-fish (Roccus lineatus) 272 



13. Pig-fish or hog-fish {Orthopristis chrysopterus) 290 



14. Slieepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus) 300 



15. Squeteague; weak-fish (Cynoscion regalis) 310 



16. Spotted squeteague; spotted weak-fish {Cynoscion nebulosuf<) 312 



17. Spot {Leiostomus xanthurus) 316 



18. Croaker {Micropogon undidatus) 318 



19. Red drum; red-fish (Scioenops ocellatus) 320 



20. A camp of mullet fishermen on Shackleford Banks. 



Drag-seine fishing on a North Carolina shoal 408 



21. Shad hatchery of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries on Pembroke Creek near Edentou. 



Interior of shad hatchery, showing automatic hatching jars 414 



TEXT FIGURES. ■ P.A.GE. 



1. Cut of yellow perch showing parts usually referred to in descriptions 24 



2. Lancelet. Branchiostoma lanceolatum 27 



3. Sea lamprey. Petroniyzon marinus 28 



4. Cow shark. Hexanchus griseus 30 



5. Bonnet-headed shark. Sphyrna tiburo 35 



6. Hammer-headed shark. Sphyrna zygcena. Dorsal and dorso-lateral views 36 



7. Saw-fish. Pristis pectinatus 39 



8. Guitar-fish. Rhinobatus lentiginosus. Lateral and dorsal views 40 



9. Brier ray. Raja eglanteria. JNIale 42 



10. Torpedo. Tetronarce occidentalis 43 



11. Sea-devil. Mantabirostris 48 



12. Sturgeon. Acipenser oxyrhynclius 56 



13. Short-nosed sturgeon. Acipenser brevirostrum 58 



14. Mud-fish: bow-fin. Amiatus calva 60 



