THE SEA FISHERIES OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 35 



this region up to the present time, whether clone in coDnection with 

 the TJ. S. Fish Commission or < independently. The special dates and 

 localities are given in each case.* 

 Lophius Americamis DeKay. Goosefish; Angler. 



A specimen caught in Vineyard Sound, in June, contained crabs, 

 Cancer irroratus; and squids, Loligo Pealii. Another contained a me- 

 dium-sized skate. Still another a large common flounder; bluefish 

 (Pomatomus saltatrix) ; fragments of clam shells (Mya arenaria) ; crabs ; 

 and eel-grass. Wood's Holl, 1871 ; E. Palmer. 



Specimens taken in the rivers with herring had their stomachs tilled 

 with that fish. A. E. Verrill, Eastport, Me., 1871. 

 Alutera Sclicepfii. (Walb.) Goode & Bean. File-fish. 



A specimen taken at Wood's Holl, in August, contained a quantity 

 of the finely-divided stems and branches of a Hydroid, Pennaria tiarella. 

 Pseudopleuroncctes Americamis Gill. Winter Flounder. 



A specimen caught at Wood's Holl, in August, contained large num- 

 bers of Bulla, solitaria. 



Specimens taken, in 1S71, in the rivers about Eastport, were filled 

 with herring. A. E. Verrill, 1871. 



Lophopsetta maculata Gill. Spotted Flounder. 



Numerous specimens caught in seines at Great Egg Harbor, April 

 1871, contained large quantities of shrimp, especially Mysis Americana 

 and Grangon vulgaris; the prawn, Palwmonetes vulgaris; numerous 

 Amphipods, Gammarus mucronatus ; one contained a Gcbia affinis. 

 C/ucnopsctta ocellaris Gill. Ocellated Flounder; Summer Flounder. 



Several specimens taken in the seines at Great Egg Harbor, New 

 Jersey, in April, contained large quantities of shrimp, Grangon vulgaris 

 and Mysis Americana; one contained a full-grown Gebia affinis. 



One caught at Wood's Holl, June G, contained twent\--six specimens 

 of Yoldia limatula; and numerous shells of Nucula proxima, Angulus 

 tener, and Tritia trivittata; and Amphipod Crustacea belonging to the 

 genus Ampelisca. 



Specimens caught at Wood's Holl, in July, contained rock-crabs, 

 Cancer irroratus; Pinnixa cylindrica; Grangon vulgaris; squids, Loligo 

 Pealii; Angulus tener; Nucula proximo,; and many "sand- dollars," Echi- 

 narachnius parma. 



August 16. One specimen contained a scup and one squid {Loligo) • 

 Sept. 1. Another specimen had two small crabs and two minnows. 

 Wood's Holl ; E. Palmer, 1871. 



* This article is essentially the same as the one contributed by Prof. A. E. Verrill 

 to the report of U. S. Fish Commission ofT871-'72. I am indebted to Mr. R. Rathbuu 

 for rearranging it and adding notes by Professor Verrill made at Eastport, Me., either 

 in 1871 or previous years, and notes of the fishes found as food in the stomachs of 

 other fishes at Wood's Holl in 1871 by Dr. E. Palmer, Professor Verrill having enu- 

 merated in his report only the invertebrate contents. 



