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Raja lasvis Mitchill. 



I);ini |)ni)i- Skate. 



Dr. Abbott tells me that the skate he reported in 1868 under tliis 

 naiiic was taken in -the Delaware, somewhere in the vicinity of Beverly, 

 in Burlijigton county, and was later exhibited in Trenton. 



Family DASYATID^. 



Dasyatis centroura (i\Iitchlll). 

 Sting Kay. 



Two examples, most likely this species, were reported taken at Cor- 

 son's Inlet (lurino; the |)ast summer, according to Dr. Phillips. 



Family ACIPENSERID^. 



Acipenser sturio Unnseiis. 

 Sturgeon. 



In Raccoon Creek, at Bridgeport, Gloucester county, reported scarce 

 liy the fishermen, and but few^ taken now. 



Mr. H. Walker Hand reports that the fishermen were mating with 

 much lictter success off Oreen Creek, Cape May county, than for sev- 

 eral ycai-s ]iast. during late s])iing in 1908. At Dias Creek one of the 

 fishermen caught two large roe sturgeon, seven black drums and 

 five hundred pounds of wcakfish on April 27th, it being the first lift 

 of the i)ound-nets for the spring. 



I saw two large examples taken at Pennsgrovt', Salem connly, in 

 the Delaware, on July 22d, 190S. 



Mr. J. B. Vanderveer says the sturgeon ascends the Delaware 

 IJiver at Trenton in the s])i-ing when the water Ijegins to warm, after 

 the bi'.'akiiig U|) of the ice. They move u\) in small-sized schools or 

 huiuhes of a dozen or more on the new moon, afterwards dropping 

 baek. 'I'he buck is smalh'i' than the sow, which weighs from fiftv to 



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