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Selene vomer (Linnaeus). 



Moon Fish. 



One at Sea Isle City late in August, 1908. W. J. Fox. They were 

 then reported to be abundant there, and a number were shipped to 

 market. 



Dr. Phillips reports small ones taken in the bait-nets at Corson's 

 Inlet. 



Trachinotus carolinus (Linnaeus). 

 Common Pampano. 



A pampano, evidently this species, reported taken at Corson's Inlet 

 on August 21st, 1908, by Dr. Phillips. 



Several taken at Ocean City on September 10th, 1908, in the surf. 



Family POMATOMID-ffi. 



Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus). 

 Blue Fish. 



Dr. Phillips says they are common some years at Corson's Inlet. 

 Small ones abundant in August. 



One small example taken at Ocean City on September 7th, 1908, 

 by Mr. David McCadden, with an isopod crustacean on the gills. 



Forty-three examples of moderately small size were taken, mostly 

 in a single haul of the seine, in the surf at Ocean City, on September 

 10th, 1908. They were apparently all herded in a school in one of 

 the gullies or little bays formed along the beach, and from which the 

 tide was fast ebbing with a very strong undertow. All the fish opened 

 contained half-gi'own sand lance, most of which appeared to have 

 been swallowed whole. One blue fish, when thrown on the dry sand, 

 vomited a small live sand lance. But a single blue fish was found 

 infested with the familiar isopod crustacean attached to the gills. 

 The teeth of the blue fish, even when small, are very sharp, and I 

 was painfully bitten by one in its struggles as it floundered about. 



