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FAUNA OF OUTER BANKS, VINEYAED SOUND, ETC. 



643 



near the coast. Tbe vast quantities of free-swimming animals contin- 

 ually brought northward by the Gulf Stream and filling the water, both 

 at the surface and bottom, furnish an Inexhaustible supply of food for 

 many of the animals inhabiting the bottom, and probably directly or 

 indirectly, to nearly all of them. A very large species of Salpa, often 

 5 or 6 inches long, occurs both at the surface and close to the bottom, 

 in vast quantities. Sometimes several bushels come up in a single haul 

 of the trawl. I have taken this same Salpa in very numerous instances, 

 from the stomachs of star-fishes of many kinds, from Actiniae of sev- 

 eral species, etc. Pteropods also frequently occur in the. stomachs of 

 the star- fishes, while Foraminifera furnish a large part of the food of 

 many of the mud-dwelling species of various orders. 



The fishes, which are very abundant and of many species, find a won- 

 derfully abundant supply of most excellent food in the very numerous 

 species of crabs, shrimi), and other Crustacea, which occur in such vast 

 quantities that not unfrequently many thousands of specimens of sev- 

 eral species are taken in a single haul of the trawl. Cephalopods are 

 also abundant and are eagerly devoured by the larger fishes, while others 

 prey largely upon the numerous gastropods and bivalves. 



Table of outer stations occupied in 1881, with temperatures of bottom amd surface. 



[The distances ire measured from Gay Head light, in geographical mUes. The bearings are mag- 

 netic. 1 



917 

 918 

 919 

 920 

 921 

 922 

 923 

 924 

 925 

 926 

 935 

 936 

 937 

 938 

 939 

 940 

 941 

 942 

 943 

 944 

 945 

 946 

 947 

 949 

 950 

 951 

 952 

 953 

 954 

 994 

 995 

 996 

 997 

 998 

 999 

 1025 

 1026 



Locality. 



Off Martha's Vineyard. 



S. i W. 59i miles 



S.iW.61 miles 



S.iW.65 miles 



S. i W. 68J miles 



S. J W. 73 miles 



S.i W. 77 miles 



S.iW.78i miles 



S.4 W.SS^mUes 



S.iW.86 miles 



S. J W. 85 miles 



S. by E. iE. 106i miles .... 



S. by E. I E. 104i miles 



S. by E. |E. 102 miles 



S. by E. ^E. lOOmUes 



S. by E. JE. 98 miles 



S. byE. *E. 97 miles 



S. byE, JE. 89i miles 



S. by W. i W. 8iJ miles 



S. SW. 83 miles 



S.SW.82 miles 



S. by W. i W. 84^ mUes 



S. by W. i W. 87i miles 



S. by W . i W. 89 miles 



S. 79 J miles 



S. 75 miles 



S. 85 miles 



S.JE. 87J miles 



S.4E.91i miles 



S.*E. 91 miles 



S. SW. i W. 104 J miles 



S. S W. J W. 104i mUes 



S. SW. i W. 104 mUes 



S. SW. i W. 103i miles 



S. S W. i W. 102i mUes 



S. SW. i W. 100 miles 



S. SW.J W. 95 miles 



S. SW. i W. 93J miles 



44 

 46 

 53 

 63 

 67 

 67 

 98 

 164 

 229 

 199 

 782 

 716 

 661 

 317 

 264 

 134 

 77 

 138 

 157 

 128 

 207 

 247 

 319 

 100 

 71 

 225 

 396 

 724 

 651 

 368 

 358 

 346 

 335 

 302 

 266 

 216 

 182 



Bottom. 



Green mud 



do 



do 



do 



, do 



Green mud, sand. . . 



Sand 



do 



Sand, mud 



do 



Mud 



Green sand, mud. . . 



do 



do 



Sand 



Sand, mud 



do 



Sand, mud, shell 



do 



Green mud, sand. . . 

 do 



Sand, mud 



Tellow mud 



Sand, shell, mud 



Mud 



Tellow mud, sand . 



Mud 



Sand, mud 



Mud 



Tellow mud, sand . 

 do 



Tellow mud 



Gravel, mud 



V.V^'.Ao '.'.'.'.'.'.'.' ".'.'. 

 do 



Date. 



Temp. r. 



July 

 July 

 July 

 July 

 July 

 July 

 July 

 July 

 July 

 July 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Aug 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 



Bot- 

 tom. 



Sur- 

 face. 



Hour. 



4. 10 a. m. 



5. 33 a. m. 



7. 00 a. m. 



8. 20 a. m. 



9. 40 a. m. 

 10. 57 a. m. 

 12. 27 p. m. 



1. 52 p. m. 



3. 35 p m. 



5. 24 p. m. 



8. 14 a. m. 

 10. 43 a. m. 

 12. 45 p. m. 



2. 44 p. m. 

 4. 25 p. m. 

 5. 30 p. m. 



7.45 p.m. 



6. 15 a. m. 

 7. 10 a. m. 

 8. 27 a. m. 



12. 05 p. m. 



2. 00 p. m. 



4. 00 p. m. 



4. 20 a. m. 



5. 50 a. m. 



9.40 a.m. 

 11. 28 a. m. 



2. 30 p. m. 



4. 50 p. m. 



4. 50 a. m. 



6. 32 a. na. 



7.35 a.m. 



9.03 a.m. 

 10. 84 a. m. 

 11.48 a. m. 



1. 05 p. m. 



2. 55 p. m. 



