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noted at Cape Charles City, all of which, however, are men- 

 tioned in Air. Barton A. Bean's list-' of 1891. Ahout Long 

 Point Island we met with several species Air. Bean did not 

 have. Alay 16 Air. DeHaven and I collected along and on 

 Smith Island. 



I include under this caption a small collection of fresh water 

 fishes obtained at Alidway Alills of the James River drainage, 

 in Nelson County, November 25-27, 191 5, by Air. E. R. Dunn, 

 also a similar lot of material from Piney Creek, a tributary of 

 the Potomac in Londoun County, which I visited August 6, 

 1916. The latter is a rapid rocky stream just below Harpers 

 Ferry. 



CarcJiarias taurus Rafinesque. — Smith Island. 



MustcUis inustelus (Linnaus). — Fig. 2. Abundant about 

 Smith Island on Alay 16. Several were caught Alay 15 with 

 unborn young. We saw ten adult pregnant females, and no 

 males. Some were caught on lines and others were dragged 

 ashore in the hauling-seines. In size these sharks were fully 

 adult, or about three feet long. Of the six we opened all were 

 found with living young, in most cases eight within a female 

 or four in each "uterus." Externally the adult female did not 

 appear swollen, or but slightly more robust than males of the 

 same size observed elsewhere. They took the crab-bait in- 

 tended for "trout" (Cynoscion regalis) , witii the usual force 

 and held on simply as a dead weight, it being necessary to lift 

 them into the boat with a landing net as they were brought up 

 to the surface on the line. They floundered about the bottom 

 of the boat in the usual fashion, until a well-aimed blow on 

 the top of the head rendered them quiet. Afterwards we cut 



3 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, pp. 83-94. 



