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13. Is the water there salt, fresh, or brackish? ' 
14. Do the smelts in your neighborhood appear to be moving in any 
general direction? If so, which way are they going ? 
15. Do they seem to belong to one general body, or are there succes- 
sive runs of them, as though they belonged to separate schools? If the 
latter, is there any difference in the appearance of the different schools ? 
16. What fresh-water rivers and streams that you can name do smelts 
ascend, and how far? And at what dates? 
17. Do they ever ascend to lakes and ponds ? 
18. Have their movements up the rivers been interfered with by dams 
or in any other way, or can they now ascend as far as they were ever 
accustomed to do? 
19. Has there been any other change in their range ? 
20. How far out to sea do smelts go? 
21. Ave they ever caught in seines along with mackerel, menhaden, or 
other fish? Ifso, mention any instances you know of, and state where 
they occurred. 
22. Are smelts ever found in the stomachs of cod, hake, pollock, or 
other fish canght at sea? If you can mention any instances, state where 
and when the fish were caught. 
25. Have any observations been made on the temperature of the water 
atthe time when smelts are present in your neighborhood? If not, can 
you not make and report them? 
24. When they leave your neighborhood where do they go? 
25. What effect have the tides and weather on their movements 2? 
26. Do they appear to move about by night the same as by day? 
27. State any further facts you may know about the movements of 
smelts, such as the direction they appear to come from when they arrive 
in your neighborhood, which way they go when they leave, how fast 
they travel, whether they swim near the surface or bottom, in schools 
or singly, &e. 
K.— Food. 
28. What do smelts feed on? 
. Do they feed at the time of spawning? 
I'.— Reproduction and growth. 
30. How do the male smelts differ from the females ? 
ol. Which sex is the plentiest the season through ? 
32. Do the sexes always go in company or does one of them precede 
the other, especially at the time when they ascend the streams or visit 
their spawning places ? 
33. Are barren smelts, that is, containing neither spawn nor milf, 
ever found ? 
34. Where and at what date do smelts lay their eggs? 
35, Can you tell anything about the kind of ground selected by them 
