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back and spread them over the fields to manure their soil. Such 
places were very foul-smelling, on account of the desiccating 
bodies. We noticed, besides all the skates mentioned, herring, 
mossbunkers and flounders. The waste of the latter, especially, 
was deplorable, as in a number of cases large examples of the 
summer flounder of about 2 feet in length were found rotting 
along with the others. Several herring were sometimes used 
to a hill to force the corn. The buzzards and crows have plenty 
of food in such places, and along the beach, where there is always 
a great variety of rotting animal life, insects also abound in pro- 
fusion. A number of large examples of both sexes of this skate 
were seen along the bay shore at Green Creek, June 9th, 1907. 
Raja eglanteria Lacépede. 
Common Speckled Skate. 
A single example, about 28 inches long, was seen among the 
other skates at Green Creek, Cape May county, May 5th, 1907. 
H. Walker Hand and H. W. Fowler. Mr. Hand says they prefer 
sandy bottoms, with croakers and sea robins, and for this reason 
may be unusual in Delaware Bay. Sometimes reported from the 
pounds in June. Reported at Barnegat Pier on July 30th, 1907. 
Egg cases, most likely belonging to this species, were found 
on the beach at Ocean City Point on August 16th, 1907. This 
skate was reported to be the most abundant species at Beesley’s 
Point, Somers Point and Ocean City, and in Great Egg Harbor 
Bay during the past summer. 
Family DASYATIDZA. 
(Dasybatide. ) 
Dasyatis centroura (Mitchill). 
Sting Ray. 
During the past summer sting rays have been very scarce in 
the bay along the Cape May county shore, and but few have been 
