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size and ninie <»f them less than fmir inches lonR." In the stomach of a BufImU 

 {(jurteen inches lonj;. they found thirty darters. Holcosowa nigrum ohnstcdi. 



Kendall and (ioldslioroiijjh ('08. p. 64) tell of its habit of approaching the 

 sh'Te at night to feet!, and <leclare that it sui)sists to a great extent upon other 

 fishes, their eggs and young. Young e.xamples. 2^ to 6 inches long, had in their 

 stomachs fragments of insects, shells of ent(»mostracans. mites and larval insects, 

 principally the black Hy. This with other data on the food of young Hurlx>ts 

 makes it appear that they have a diet quite different from that (jf the adult. f)eing 

 more insectivorfuis in character. Hankinson ('16, p. 152) found chironomid 

 larvae in the stomach of a Hurlnit seven inches l(»ng. in addition to the remains of 

 five or more small fish. Moore ("17. p. 2) says that at least in early life it fee<ls 

 on atpiatic insects and fish eggs. One fish (No. 4203) 15" 2 inches long, taken 

 through the ice near Dunham Island. Feb. 19. 1921. had in its stomach 241 May-fly 

 nymphs. 3 small fish, including a Perch 2'/2 inches long, and indeterminable 

 material. .\ large MurlMit taken in Mai)le Hay of < )neida I^ke !)y Mr. Joseph 

 HufT. on Xoveml)er S. 1923. contained a <>inch black bass. The head was jiartially 

 digested so that the determination of the s|>ecies was not i)ossible. .\nother 

 s|>ecimen taken a week later in the same bay coiiiaine<l a 5-iiuh kock Hass and 

 bones of other fishes. 



flemens ('24. pp. I4<>^-I50) re])orts the fotnl of i V> I-ing from Lake Xipigon. 

 r)ntario. as Inring princi])ally Ciscoes i l.eiwidUhys) . these l)eing found in the 

 stomacb> of 88 of the Ling exan.ined. Cottids and other fishes were also 

 included. an<l considerable invertebrate material comjxised j)rominently of the 

 crustacean Mysis. with chironomids and entomostracans. Surl)er ('20. p. 83 » 

 found the stom.ichs of HurlMits from a Minnesota lake tn lie distende<l with eggs 

 of other fishes. 



Dislrihiilivii Records. We si-cured jx-rsonally only one Hurlnit in the region, 

 the >mall one referre<l to alM)ve ( No. 333) an<l this was taken from West N'ienna 

 treek. July 21. 1916; No. 42t>3 secured fron> a fisherman near Dunham Island. 

 \\ A. Dence found an 8'i-inch dead specimen in Dakin Hay. .^ept. i^>. 1927. 



l-.ihiiiics mill Pisiiisf. HurUits are sometimes eaten by other fishes. .Sir John 

 Richardson fotnul a I^ke Trout iCrislhoimr inniuiyiiixh ) with its stomach 

 crammi-.l with young HurUits (CkhmIc. '84. p. 238). and Milner ('/i. p. 39) tells 

 of a trout twenty-three and one-half inches long, taken at Two Rivers. Wisconsin, 

 from the mouth of which projivted some three inches of the tail of a lUirNit. 

 The hea<l had U-en digested away, but the Uxly was fourteen inches long without it 

 We found dead Ittirliots in ( >neicla I.ake with lamprey s<-ars u(M>n them. Maker 

 (■|6. p. n;i>i records finding two ta|ieworms and one hundrol sixteen other 

 worms (probably all parasitic) in the six-cimens he examined. Ward ("ii, p. 

 2271 rwords two hiindri-d forty-seven |>arasitic womis in three MurUits rxaminetl. 

 There were eleven trentatiMles. fifty-six cesto<lrs, and one himdrrd eighty 

 .\canthocephala I.aRue ( '^^t. p. 283) found larval trematiKlcs in the eyes of 

 Hurlxits from Douglas I.ake. Mean ( ■<*~a. j>. 372; 03, p. 702 I notes tliat the fish 

 is easily attacked and overcome liy fungi, t'olc ('03, p. 37<)) found lerche> ctiin- 

 mon on tl>e Ijwver in I-»kc Eric. Dcncc ftmnd on the tlcad Hurltot in Dakin 

 Bay. a grxxl ntany UtcIics on its fins. The fish was in frcsli omdition. Prelile 

 (■|iS. p. 37S I found a Kinu' ' • " "' " "v a Hiirlxtt seven itKhcs long. 



