FURTHER NOTES ON NEW JERSEY FISHES. 123 
Occurs occasionally in the Great Egg Harbor Bay about 
Beesley’s Point and Somers Point. One was reported from Cape 
May in the past August, about 614 feet long, which weighed 
about 225 pounds. ‘The teeth were sold by beach fakirs for a 
dollar apiece. 
Dr. Kendall writes, “one time while off Cape May, in the 
Grampus, we sighted a school of large fish making considerable 
commotion in the water. A dory was lowered, and we went out 
to investigate. We found that it was a school of large Cynoscion 
regalis and sharks feeding upon anchovies (Anchovia mitchilli 
most likely). I think the sharks were Carcharias littoralis, as 
they were broad-nosed fellows. We gaffed a dory load of the 
weak-fish, and they were large ones.” 
Family ALOPIIDZE. 
Alopias vulpes (Gmelin). 
Thresher Shark. 
Mr. O. H. Brown tells me, that according to Mr. Henry Bohm, 
about II or 12 years ago this fish appeared in the neighborhood 
of the steamboat landing at Cape May, and was seen for several 
days, occasionally mixing with schools of porpoises, when it 
threshed the water with its tail like those seen in the bay some 
years before. One day it came under the steamboat wharf and 
became confused in the piling. The next day Mr. Bohm found 
it dead in his fish-pound, which stood a few hundred yards 
further up the beach. Mr. Bohm estimates its body was between 
6 and 7 feet long, and as the tail was nearly as long as the fish, 
it would have measured between 13 and 14 feet from snout to 
tip of tail. The tail was preserved for several years. ‘Those seen 
by Mr. Brown some years previously in Delaware Bay were 
probably 4 or 5 in number, and were swimming along with a 
number of porpoises off Higbee’s Beach. The weather was calm, 
and more or less still, so they were easily observed. The sharks 
were first noticed as they swam with their long tails protruding 
some distance, and then they would let them fall on the surface 
