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Whitefish — Coregonus clupeiformis (Mitch.) Milner. 



Spermaries (specimen from, a fish weighing 2 pounds)-. Ecorse,Mich. ? 

 Nov. 15, 1872. 15,216. J. W. Milner. 



Menhaden. — Brevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe) Goode. 



Spermaries. Noank, Conn., Aug. 24, 1874. 15,217. U. S. Fish 

 Commission. 



Sword-fish. — XipMas gladius Linn. 



Spermaries. Fulton Market, N. Y., July 17, 1874. 16,222. E. G-. 

 Blackford. It is doubtful whether this species spawns in 

 American waters, as fish of less than fifty pounds weight are 

 seldom seen on our coast. A "sword" about one inch long 

 was found imbedded in the flesh of a shark taken off Glouces- 

 ter, Mass., in 1878, but what distance the latter had traveled 

 since it had been attacked by the sword-fish is uncertain. 



Bonito. — Sarda mediterranea (Schn.) J. & G. 



Spermaries. Wood's Holl, Mass., August.4, 1874. 16,312. 



Hake. — Phycis cliuss (Walb.) Gill. 



Spermaries. (Taken from a fish weighing 8 pounds; weight of 

 specimen 8 ounces.) Gloucester, Mass., September 3, 1878. 

 25,144. B. Edward Earll. 



Squirrel fish. — Diplectrum fasciculare (C. & V.). 



Spermaries. Charleston, S. C, April 2, 1880. 25,426. B.Edward 

 Earll. 



Hake. — Phycis tenuis (Mitch.) DeKay. 



Spermaries. Off Newport, B. L, August, 1880. U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission. 



OVARIES. 



Haddock. — Melanogrammus osglefinus (Linn.) Gill. 



Ovaries. Eastport, Me., 1872. 10,475. U. S. Fish Commission. 

 The haddock spawns along various portions of the New Eng- 

 land coast in May. It was first artificially hatched at Glou- 

 cester, Mass., in the spring of 1880. 



Goose fish. — Lopliius piscatorius Linn. 



Spent ovaries. Eastport, Me., September 6, 1872. 10,476. Prof. 

 Spencer F. Baird. 



Whitefish. —Coregonus elupeiformis Le S. 



Ovaries, with a few free eggs. This specimen, was taken from a 

 fish weighing 2| pounds, and is estimated to contain 28,500 

 eggs. Ecorse, Mich. 10,487. J. W. Milner. The whitefish 



