New York, May 15, 1914. No. 6 





OFEW 



Published by the contributors to advance the Science of cold- 

 blooded vertebrates. 



ON SNAKING SUCKERS 



Mr. Spinden's article in Copela (Rio Grande 

 Indian Fishermen) recalled one of the earliest 

 episodes of my youth. When I was ten years old 

 (1847), I was a boarding scholar at Greenville, 

 N. Y., and much addicted to angling, especially in 

 a stream immediately back of our house. A New 

 York boy (I forget his name) came with a mother 

 or aunt to spend a week or so with my teacher's 

 family, and had a new wrinkle in the line of fish- 

 ing. He had a long "catgut leader, 1 ' which he 

 made into a loop and attached it to the end of a 

 pole, and this he used to take suckers ( Catostomus) ; 

 he slowly directed the loop towards the sucker and, 

 leading it over the head, jerked it up when he had 

 led it to the middle of the body and landed the 

 fish. I do not remember that he caught any other 

 fish than suckers in that way, the other fishes being 

 too timid to stand the test. 



THEO. N. GILL, 



Washington, I). G. 



NOTES ON PELAGIC FISHES 



The following notes are based on observations 

 made during an Atlantic cruise in the whaling brig 

 " Daisy." The fish parasites mentioned have been 



