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were reported from the same localities by various fishermen, but 
none so large as this, which measured about 12 feet. They 
were called ‘“‘santiagos” or “‘santiago,’’ the impression prevalent 
among the fishermen being that the cannonading during the 
Spanish-American War had forced them to retreat to more quiet 
surroundings. The large example referred to was a male with 
well-developed claspers, and was brown above and dirty-white 
below when fresh. The lower surfaces of the fins were whitish 
like the belly, and their upper surfaces dark like the back. Teeth 
white and the iris slaty. Mr. H. Walker Hand reports that large 
sharks are common in shoal water during warm weather about 
Cape May. ‘They may be seen swimming about with the high 
dorsal fin well exposed and hunting for soft-shell crabs. Though 
I have no definite information concerning their breeding, pos- 
sibly the larger ones may be there for the purpose of copulating 
like their relatives are known to do. They also occur in the 
Delaware Bay about Cape May occasionally. 
Squalus obscurus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 828. 
Carcharias obscurus Bean, Bull., U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, 
Boae52. 
Carcharhinus obscurus Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, 
p. 358. 
Carcharhinus milberti (Miller and -Henle). 
Small Blue Shark. White Shark. 
Head 5; depth 514; snout 2% in head; width of mouth 2%; 
interorbital space 144; front edge of first dorsal 14; pectoral 
114; length of caudal peduncle 234; upper caudal lobe 334 in 
rest of body. Body strongly compressed, deepest at origin of 
pectoral. A! pit at root of caudal above and below. Head broad, 
depressed, and profile of snout rather rounded as viewed from 
above. Eye circular, midway in head. Mouth broadly crescent- 
shaped, with a short fold only at each corner. Upper teeth less 
serrated, not notched on outer margin. Lower teeth erect and 
narrower, with fine serrations. Internasal space but little less than 
snout when measured from front of upper jaw. First dorsal 
