514 KEPOET OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



B.— LISTS OF SPECIES FOUXD I:N^ THE STOMACHS OF 



FISHES— FOOD OF FISHES. 



In the folio \\iug lists I have brought together the principal results of 

 the various recorded examinations of stomachs of fishes in this region, 

 up to the i)resent time, whether done in connection with the United 

 States Fish Commission or independently. The special dates and local- 

 ities are given in each case. 



The observations from June to September, 1871, were made in con- 

 nection with the work of the commission. Those from May to July, 

 1872, are based on collections made at Wood's Hole by Mr. Yinal N. 

 Edwards, for Professor Baird. Those at Great Egg Harbor, New Jer- 

 sey, April, 1871, were made by Mr. S. I. Smith and the writer while on 

 an independent visit to that place.* The observations made at East- 

 Ijort, Maine, in 1872, are not included in this report. 



The names of the fishes used in this list are those adopted by Profes- 

 sor Baird, and agree, for the most part, with those used by Professor 

 Theodore Gill in his Catalogue of the Fishes of the Eastern Coast of 

 North America. 



Striped Bass; Eock-Fisii, or "Rock;" {Rocmts Uneatus.) 



At Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, April, 1871, several specimens, 

 freshly caught in seines, with menhaden, &c., contained Crangon vul- 

 garis (shrimp) in large quantities. 



A specimen caught at Wood's Hole, July 22, 1872, contained a large 

 mass of " sea-cabbage," Ulva latissima, and the remains of a small 

 fish. 



Specimens taken at Wood's Hole, August, 1871, contained crabs, Can- 

 cer irror at us ; and lobsters, Somarus Amcricanus. 



White Perch ; [Morone Americana.) 



Numerous specimens caught with the preceding at Great Egg Har- 

 bor, New Jersey, contained Crangon vulgaris. 



Black Bass; Sea-Bass; {Centropristls fuscus.) 



Specimens caught in Vineyard Sound, June 10, contained the common 

 CTah, Cancer irroratus ; the mnd-cr a,h, Panoijeus Sayi; three species of 

 fishes. 



Another caught May 25 contained a squid, Loligo pallida. 



SCUP ; PoRGEE ; {Stenotomus argyrops.) 



Forty young specimens, one year old, taken at Wood's Hole in August, 

 contained large numbers of Amphipod Crustacea, among which were 

 Unciola irrorata, Ampelisca, sp., &c. ; several small mud-crabs, Panopeus 

 depressus; Idotea irrorata; Nereis vircns, and numerous other Annelids of 

 several species, too much digested for identification. 



*The results of the observations made at Great Egg Harbor were published by the 

 writer in the American Naturalist, vol. v, p. 397, 1871. 



