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Raja laevis Mitchill. 

 Barn Door Skate. 



Dr. Abbott tells me that the skate he reported in 1868 under this 

 name was taken in the Delaware, somewhere in the vicinity of Beverly, 

 in Burlington county, and was later exhibited in Trenton. 



Family DASYATID.3S. 



Dasyatis centroura (Mitchill). 

 Sting Ray. 



Two examples, most likely this species, were reported taken at Cor- 

 son's Inlet during the past summer, according to Dr. Phillips. 



Family ACIPENSERIDJE. 



Acipenser sturio Linnaeus. 

 Sturgeon. 



In Raccoon Creek, at Bridgeport, Gloucester county, reported scarce 

 by the fishermen, and but few taken now. 



Mr. H. Walker Hand reports that the fishermen were meeting with 

 much better success off Green Creek, Cape May county, than for sev- 

 eral years past, during late spring in 1908. At Dias Creek one of the 

 fishermen caught two large roe sturgeon, seven black drums and 

 five hundred pounds of weakfish on April 27th, it being the first lift 

 of the pound-nets for the spring. 



I saw two large examples taken at Pennsgrove, Salem county, in 

 the Delaware, on July 22d, 1908. 



Mr. J. B. Vanderveer says the sturgeon ascends the Delaware 

 River at Trenton in the spring when the water begins to warm, after 

 the breaking up of the ice. They move up in small-sized schools or 

 bunches of a dozen or more on the new moon, afterwards dropping 

 back. The buck is smaller than the sow, which weighs from fifty to 



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