REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 17 
value $130,000. There were employed 400 men, catching 
32,000,000 menhaden, producing 1,500 barrels of oil and 2,500 
tons of fertilizer. Besides what are taken by these companies, 
a fleet of steamers owned by a New York company caught many 
thousand on the coast of New Jersey. 
The pound nets extend from Atlantic City to the Highlands 
of Navesink, and those on the Sandy Hook bay catch hundreds 
of thousands of menhaden, which are sold to the fishing smacks 
from Fulton Market, New York, or to the line fishermen along 
the shore for blue fish bait. 
The following Natural History specimens have been received 
during the year: 
Barn owl (female). 
Black-billed cuckoo (male). 
Whip-poor-will (female). 
Purple martin (female). 
Ipswich sparrow (male). 
Turtle dove (female). 
Two sharp-shinned hawks (male and female). 
Night heron (female). 
Downy woodpecker (female). 
Purple martin (male). 
Little yellow rail (male). 
Least tern (young). 
OTHER NATURAL HISTORY SPECIMENS. 
I large specimen of timber wolf, mounted. 
1 large mounted lobster. 
1 large mounted snapper turtle. 
I mounted mink. 
4 mounted red foxes. . 
7 mounted ground-hogs. 
1 alligator. 
I great squid. 
1 devil fish. 
EGGS AND NESTS. 
Great blue heron, I nest, 2 eggs. 
Fish crow, I nest. 
Cooper’s hawk, I nest. 
Red-tail hawk, I nest. 
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