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while others may be tied to the shore. ‘They are always placed 
in salt-water creeks and in tide-water. The eels are shipped 
in ordinary closed freight cars and when packed alive in boxes 
will live at least 48 hours with the only danger in freezing. 
Many years ago eels were very abundant about the cancerine 
(king crab) factory, where they fed on refuse, especially mag- 
gots. They are also common in the mouth of the bay and in 
the breakwater. In the tide-water of the Great Egg Harbor 
River many young, of but several inches in length, were seen 
swimming about among schools of Fundulus. Most all were 
transparent. At the dam at May’s Landing numbers of them 
were found squirming about as though they wished to ascend 
above the tide-water. In the Delaware thousands of such small 
eels are to be found during July and August wiggling about the 
mud-flats. The usual method on the Delaware to fish for eels 
is by bobbing, and they are sometimes hauled into the boat as 
fast as one is able to cast. 
Anguilla chrysypa Moore, Bull, U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 
360.—Smith, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 369.—Ever- 
mann, Recreation, April, 1902, p. 2092. 
Anguilla tenuirostris Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, 
p. 350.—Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 825.—Abbott, Am. Nat. 
LVE1870, p. 30T- 
Anguilla macrocephala Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 826. 
Anguilla acutirostris Abbott, Rep. U. S: F. Com., 1875-76, 
p- 827. 
Anguilla vulgaris Jordan, An. N. Y. Acad. Sci., 1, 1879, p. 119. 
Anguilla rostrata Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1883, p. 
132.—Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, p. 479.—Bean, Bull, U. 5S. 
Fish Com., VII, 1887, p. 151. 
Anguilla rostra Lockwood, Am. Nat., XIX, 1885, p. 405. 
Family LEPTOCEPHALID&. 
The Conger Eels. 
Body moderately elongate. ‘Tongue free, largely in front. 
Posterior nostril remote from upper lip and near front of eye. 
