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Occurs occasionally in the Great Egg Harbor Bay about 

 Beesley's Point and Somers Point. One was reported from Cape 

 May in the past August, about 6^ feet long, which weighed 

 about 225 pounds. The teeth were sold by beach fakirs for a 

 dollar apiece. 



Dr. Kendall writes, "one time while off Cape May, in the 

 Grampus, we sighted a school of large fish making considerable 

 commotion in the water. A dory was lowered, and we went out 

 to investigate. We found that it was a school of large Cynoscion 

 regalis and sharks feeding upon anchovies (Anchovia mitchilli 

 most likely). I think the sharks were Carcharias littoralis, as 

 they were broad-nosed fellows. We gaffed a dory load of the 

 weak-fish, and they were large ones." 



Family ALOPIID^. 



Alopias vulpes (Gmelin). 



Thresher Shark. 



Mr. O. H. Brown tells me, that according to Mr. Henry Bohm, 

 about II or 12 years ago this fish appeared in the neighborhood 

 of the steamboat landing at Cape May, and was seen for several 

 days, occasionally mixing with schools of porpoises, when it 

 threshed the water with its tail like those seen in the bay some 

 years before. One day it came under the steamboat wharf and 

 became confused in the piling. The next day Mr. Bohm found 

 it dead in his fish-pound, which stood a few hundred yards 

 further up the beach. Mr. Bohm estimates its body was between 

 6 and 7 feet long, and as the tail was nearly as long as the fish, 

 it would have measured between 13 and 14 feet from snout to 

 tip of tail. The tail was preserved for several years. Those seen 

 by Mr. Brown some years previously in Delaware Bay were 

 probably 4 or 5 in number, and were swimming along with a 

 number of porpoises off Higbee's Beach. The weather was calm, 

 and more or less still, sO' they were easily observed. The sharks 

 were first noticed as they swam with their long tails protruding 

 some distance, and then they would let them fall on the surface 



