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and run in the creeks and ponds, where they care for their young. 

 In the late summer they move out into the channel grass in the larger 

 streams to feed on snails, sometimes as late as September. At times 

 twenty to one hundred pounds have been netted in a single "set." 

 Called yellow cat or nigger cat fish by the fishermen. 

 Found by me on Burlington Island. 



Family ESOCHXffi. 



Esox americanus (Gmelin). 



Ditch Pike. 



I have found this on Burlington Island. 



Esox reticulatus Le Sueur. 

 Pickerel. 



Abundant in the mill pond at Franklinville, Gloucester county, 

 basin of Little Ease Run, headwaters of the Maurice River, April 

 17th, 1908. 



Very abundant, though most all seen were small, in the headwaters 

 of the Maurice River called Still Run, near Porchtown, Gloucester 

 county, on April 17th, 1908. 



A small example seen at the head of the lake at Millville, Maurice 

 River, in Cumberland county, May 9th, 1908. 



Several young about two inches long or less were taken in Sluice 

 Creek, above the dam, tributary of Dennis Creek, in Cape May 

 county. Said to occur in the lake, of rather large size, and the only 

 species. 



Dr. R. J. Phillips has taken it at Palatine and Clayton. 



