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sistants during the entire spawning season. ‘The investigations 
were assisted by bright moonlight nights so that the movements 
of the fish could be noted accurately. They invariably appeared 
along the west side of the pond about five o’clock in the morning 
just at break of day. The eggs being cast at daybreak, it is 
inferred that the fish selected the sides of the ponds and tanks 
which first received the sunlight. It is interesting to note that 
the fish were but one year old when reproduction commenced. 
Actual measurement of some of the smaller specimens showed 
the males to be 44% inches in length and the females from 434 to 
5 inches in length. 
While collecting small-mouthed black bass fry from the 
spawning beds in a natural lake in Pennsylvania some nests 
were found containing eggs, very young fry, and fry ready to 
scatter. As the fish culturist in charge did not visit this lake 
until after many of the fish had finished spawning, no obserya- 
tions were made as to just how this happened. It would be in- 
teresting to learn whether more than one brood of fish worked 
on the same nest or whether one male invited several females to 
spawn at different periods on the same nest. The adult fish in 
this lake are very small and the average number of fry collected 
per nest was only about 250, the maximum number from one 
nest being 470. The lake where these operations were conducted 
is one of a group on the preserve of the Blooming Grove Hunt- 
ing and Fishing Club in the town of Gleneyre, Pennsylvania. 
It is overstocked with small-mouthed black bass and evidently 
owing to lack of food the fish have become stunted. On June 
5, several hundred nests containing eggs were examined on the 
south and west shores of the lake. Several days later these eggs 
had all disappeared. No fish hatched on these nests and there 
was no evidence showing that the eggs had died. The eggs were 
apparently devoured by the numerous bass. On nests where the 
eggs hatched or died a green moss soon appeared over the decay- 
ing eggs or shells but no such moss appeared over the several 
hundred nests on the south and west shores. Great difficulty was 
experienced in keeping the young fish alive more than twenty- 
four hours. They were taken from the nests soon after they 
began to rise from the beds. Unfortunately the bottom of the 
lake in the shallows is too rocky to permit of seining young 
