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rated. Pectorals broadly falcate, their tips falling about last */; 
in length of disk. Ventrals rather long, free and truncate, with 
rounded corners. Vent large, just after origins of ventral fins. 
Color in alcohol little different from that noted in life or when 
fresh. Color when fresh, back uniform dusky-brown, only imme- 
diate edges of disk paler. ‘Tail all more or less dusky or brown- 
ish. A single horn-colored dusky spine. Dorsal pale grayish. 
Iris slaty-brown, with a brown black-edged ocellus around whit- 
ish pupil. Disk below entirely milky-white with soiled effect. 
Tips and under surface of each pectoral dusky. Length of body 
with disk 20 inches. July 17th, 1906. Sea Isle City. Mr. Wm. 
J. Fox. Another taken July 23d at the same place. 
Myliobatis freminvillii Fowler, Science, XXIV, 1906, Novem- 
ber oth, p. 596. 
Rhinoptera bonasus (Mitchill). 
PLATE 82. 
Cow Nosed Ray. 
Reported by Mr. Hartman from off Palermo. 
Family ACIPENSERIDZ. 
Acipenser sturio Linnzus. 
Sturgeon. 
Mr. Fox reported a few from the pounds at Sea Isle City early 
in May of 1906. In the Delaware Bay they are fished for as 
far south as Higby’s beach. 
Family PSALLISOSTOMATID&. 
Psallisostomus osseus (Linnzus). 
PLATE 83. 
Gar Pike. 
