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Family ACIPENSERID^. 

 Acipenser sturio (Linnaeus). 



Common Sturgeon. 



Color of young when fresh deep sandy-gray above, darkest on 

 back, paler on side below, and lower surface milky-white almost 

 entirely. Entire under surface of head extending up till level 

 with lower edge of eye, mi Iky- white. Shields on back and side 

 all horny-gray in color, those along lower edge of body horny- 

 white. Iris slaty with pale circle around whitish pupil. Dor- 

 sal deep dusky-gray, edges of fin narrowly in front, and broadly 

 above and behind, white. Caudal similar, only lower surface of 

 caudal peduncle milky-white. Anal largely milky-white with a 

 median blotch of dusky-gray. Spine and front edges of pectoral 

 gray to. milky-white, and fin otherwise deep dusky-gray, especi- 

 ally dark distally. Ventral similar to anal, ouly paler inside. 

 Length 9^ inches. Found in the Delaware River at Washing- 

 ton Park, Gloucester county, May 4th, 1907, Charles H. Conner. 



A mouche about 2 feet long was picked up on the bay shore at 

 Green Creek on Tune 9th, 1907. 



During the past season sturgeon fishing has been very poor, 

 according to accounts at Pennsville, some fishermen not making 

 expenses, and others have stopped operations. 



Mr. J. B. Vanderveer believes that the sturgeon sleeps, as he 

 has on one occasion at least found it floating on its back in an 

 eddy formed by a rock in the Delaware at Trenton. This ex- 

 ample was 6 or 7 feet long and was harpooned. 



Acipenser brevirostrum Le Sueur. 



Short Nosed Sturgeon. 



Head 4^, to last lateral shield; depth 6; width of head i"*/7 in 

 its length; depth of head at origin of first occipital buckler i^ ; 

 snout 2 Vt ; eye 10; width of mouth, measured inside, 4; inter- 

 orbital space 2-/7; internasal space 4; length of dorsal measured 



