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taken. Probably the present species is the most abundant. The 
protracted cold of last spring is suggested as explaining their 
scarcity, as they seldom appear at all, unless the water warms. 
They range along this region from Cape May Point, at least, 
to Goshen Creek. Throughout this extent large ones are taken 
in the pounds. At the mouth of Dennis Creek, several years ago, 
during a single haul of a 25-fathom seine about 39 were taken. 
The large examples are said to measure about 5 feet across the 
disk. 
The sting rays reported in Great Egg Harbor Bay about 
Beesley’s Point, Somers Point and Ocean City are probably this 
species. 
Dasyatis say (Le Sueur). 
Say’s Sting Ray. 
Disk rounded. Tip of snout rather truncated. Eyes oblique, 
rather small. Body smooth. ‘Tail rather smooth, with a wing- 
like expansion above and below, latter larger and nearly a third 
broader. ‘Tail a little longer than body, thicker at base and taper- 
ing to an acute point. ‘Two spines placed nearer base of tail than 
at its tip, and upper larger. Fins and tail thick and broadest or 
deepest medianly. Upper fin on tail begins near tip of spine and 
lower arises near its base. Ventrals rounded and short. Color, 
when fresh dull brown above, below gray-white. Fins on tail 
dusky. Entire length about 44 inches. Found at the pounds at 
Green Creek, in Cape May county, June 9th, 1907. B. W. Grif- 
fiths, T. D. Keim and H. W. Fowler. 
The above was the only example seen and was undoubtedly this 
species. It was in poor preservation and nearly decomposed, and 
therefore not preserved. 
Family MYLIOBATIDE. 
Rhinoptera bonasus (Mitchill). 
Cow Nosed Ray. 
The large rays, so destructive at times to clams and oysters, in 
Delaware Bay off Green and Fishing Creeks, are probably this 
species. ‘They seem to be less frequently captured than Dasyatts. 
