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Prof. Reigliard : The males in all eases among these fishes 

 l)uil(l a nest and the females come in and spawn. With the sun- 

 fish and dogfish these females go from one nest to another, so 

 that it is possihle for, say, half a dozen females to furnish spawn 

 for a dozen or more nests. Then if cold weather comes on that 

 batch of fish may be hatched, and these same males ma}^ make 

 other nests — building again — then a new batch of females comes 

 in and fills, say, another dozen nests. So you may have more 

 nests built than you have male fish, even twice as many, ])ut ft 

 single nest does not represent the product of a single female. 



Dr. Birge : That is to say, the eggs are not all ripe at once ? 



Prof. Eeighard: That may be. 



Dr. Birge : Are not deposited ? 



Prof. Eeighard: Yes. sir — deposited within a day. ])erhaps, 

 the fish going from one nest to another, scattering tliese eggs 

 over the nests built by a number of males. I do not know 

 whether that is true of bass, but it is true of sunfish and dogfish. 

 You may in that way get more nests than fish. 



]\[r. Titcomb : I should like to inquire in connection witli 

 that whether this series of nests taken care of ])y a small iiuiu- 

 ber of males necessitated one male having the care of more than 

 one nest at a time. As I understand it, the male takes care of 

 the nest and the eggs, fans them. Xow, in the case of Brigham 

 Young, how can he manage so many nests ? 



]\f r. Stranahan : That condition extended over the season of 

 nearly four months. He had only one nest at a time, and per- 

 haps I might state that in the sixth nest that he t'atliercd ih.e 

 eggs were aborted and all died, and we were rather of thi> opin- 

 ion that he followed so soon after the brood that he had just left 

 that he had overdone himself. (Laughter). 



]\Ir. Lydell: Prof. Reighard's remarks are correct. The 

 female does not necessarily get rid of all her eggs at one and tlie 

 same time. The male fish takes her on the nest and when lie is 

 through with her she must leave. If she is iu)t finislied she must 

 wait for the next fellow. She may have to visit three or four 

 nests before she gets through. That is not trui' of the linny 

 tribe alone. (Laughter). On several occasions that I know of 

 1 have had the bass spawn the second tinu\ The most ! ever had 

 was at Cascade Springs. We had nineteen bass. (That was the 



