THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. 69 
Genus Pristis Linck. 
The Saw Fishes, 
Pristis pectinatus Latham. 
Saw Fish. 
Easily identified from any of our fishes by the very long pro- 
duced saw-like snout. This saw is said to have from 24 to 32 
pairs of teeth. Large examples reach a length of 20 feet. 
Some years ago 2 were taken in the ocean off Cape May, the 
last of which was a little less than 15 feet in length. It was 
captured in a seine while fishing for weak fish, Cynoscion, 

Saw Fish. Pristis pectinatus Latham. 
gocdies, Leiostomus, etc., and afterwards mounted and placed 
on the pier for exhibition. Mr. Witmer Stone tells me of one 
taken in August of 1900, probably one of the above. ‘Two 
remoras were found attached. So far as I can learn the only 
other record is that of an example from Grassy Sound. It has 
never been seen in Delaware Bay. 
Pristis sp. Shields, Am, Nat., XIII, 1879, p. 262. 
Family RAJIDZ. 
The Skates. 
Disk broad, rhombic. Oviparous. Eggs laid in large leathern 
cases, 4-angled, with 2 long tubular horns at each end. No 
