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were obtained from A. H. Dirkes, 50th Street and 9th Ave- 

 nue, New York, and arrived by mail or express. The 

 worms are said to be the larvae of a species of Chirosomus, 

 C. pi u in os us. They resemble the common angleworm in 

 shape, color and size. 



I was interested to see that the bloodworms buried their 

 heads and also perhaps 25 per cent of the fore end of the 

 body within themselves, in the manner of hosiery turned in 

 and in most handy shape to put on. It was not a turning 

 inside out but, rather, an introverting of the head and fore 

 part of body into the middle body cavity. When received 

 and not at once taken into the fishing skiffs or when kept 

 over night the worms were put in a cavity a foot perhaps 

 below the ground surface and protected with a covering of 

 lumber and earth for preserving darkness, even tempera- 

 ture and moisture. These worms were all reputed to come 

 from New Jersey salt water marshes. 



All the anglers — one to a boat — payed out about 70 

 feet of line and fished over the stern, both angler and oars- 

 man guide facing astern. The catches were fine, early morn- 

 ing and late evening hours, and although none of the mam- 

 moth fish were among the number the take of single 

 skiffs not infrequently ran 100 to 200 pounds in one day. 

 The catches were especially good and quickly accomplished 

 when some large tree found lodgment in a pool of right 

 depth. 



Other probable grounds. — In all striped bass streams 

 under my observation the species ascends in the spring 

 months close behind the big run of herring (late April ) and 

 always to such points in the stream as present a stony bot- 

 tom. Even in so diminutive a stream as Little River, South 

 Carolina, the dividing line of the two Carolinas on the sea 

 coast, and where the body of fresh water is only about a 

 mile long, the species finds the hard bottom of coquina or 

 phosphate rock. And I may here remark that it was while 

 on this stream I heard a native say that the species invaria- 



