

New York, February 24, 1916. No. 27 





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Published to advance the Science of cold-blooded vertebrates 



SEASONAL ANNOTATIONS ON TWO 

 LONG ISLAND FISHES 



In Fishes Within Fifty Miles of New York 

 City, 1913 (Nichols. Proc. Linn. Soc. of N. Y., Nos. 

 20-23 ) . Raja eglanteria is listed as occurring in 

 "September"; and Zoarces anguillaris in "Fall and 

 winter," with one indefinite August record. The 

 following local data concerning these species in sum- 

 mer is then an addition to the writer's knowledge of 

 their seasonal occurrence. 



Raja eglanteria (Clear-nosed Skate). — Prob- 

 ably a not uncommon summer resident near New 

 York and along the entire southern shore of Long 

 Island. Long Island dates available are from June 

 14 (Moriches Beach) to October 2 (Easthampton). 

 A specimen was taken at Cholera Bank (situated 

 about ten sea miles off Long Beach), July 15, 1915, 

 and presented to the American Museum of Natural 

 History by Mr. Edward E. Wrissenberg, its col- 

 lector. A fairly fresh specimen was found dead on 

 Moriches Beach by the writer June 14, 1914. Mr. 

 Wm. T. Helmuth writes me concerning the occur- 

 rence of the species near Easthampton in 1914 and 

 1915 as follows: 



"The first record that I can give positively is 

 July 26, 1914, when four were taken in a 'fish-trap' in 

 Gardiner's Bay. Several were caught at every haul 



