514 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



B.— LISTS OF SPECIES FOUND IK THE STOMACHS OF 

 ■ FISHES— FOOD OF FISHES. 



In the following lists I have brought together the principal results of 

 the various recorded examinations of stomachs of fishes in this region, 

 up to the present time, whether done in connection wilh the United 

 States Fish Commission or independently. The sx)ecial dates and local- 

 ities are given in each case. 



The observations from June to September, 1871, were made in con- 

 nection with the work of the commission. Those from May to July, 

 1872, are based on collections made at Wood's Hole by Mr. Yinal N. 

 Edwards, for Professor Baird. Those at Great Egg Harbor, New Jer- 

 sey, April, 1871, were made by Mr. S. I. Smith and the writer while on 

 an independent visit to that place.* The observations made at East- 

 port, Maine, in 1872, are not included in this report. 



The names of the fishes used in this list are those adopted by Profes- 

 sor Baird, and agree, for the most part, with those used by Professor 

 Theodore Gill in his Catalogue of the Fishes of the Eastern Coast of 

 North America. 



Striped Bass; Eock-Fish, or ^'Rook;" {Eoccus lineatus.) 



At Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, April, 1871, several specimens, 

 freshly caught in seines, with menhaden, &c., contained Crangon vul- 

 garis (shrimp) in large quantities. 



A specimen caught at Wood's Hole, July 22, 1872, contained a large 

 mass of " sea-cabbage," Tllva latissimaj and the remains of a small 

 fish. 



Specimens taken at Wood's Hole, August, 1871, contained crabs, Can- 

 cer irroratus; and lobsters, Homartis Americanus. 



White Perch ; {Morone Americana.) 



Numerous specimens caught with the preceding at Great Egg Har- 

 bor, New Jersey, contained Crangon vulgaris. 



Black BASS; Sea-Bass ; {Centropristis fusciis.) * 



Specimens caught in Vineyard Sound, June 10, contained the common 



cvsbb, Cancer irroratus ; the miid-crsib , Panojpeus Sayi; three species of 



fishes. 

 Another caught May 25 contained a squid, Loligo imllida. 



SCUP ; PORGEE ; {Stenotomus argyrops.) 



Forty young specimens, one year old, taken at Wood's Hole in August, 

 contained large numbers of Amphipod Crustacea, among which were 

 ZJnciola irrorata, Ampelisca, sp., &c. ; several small mud-crabs, Fanopeus 

 depressus; Idotea irrorata; Nereis virens, and numerous other Annelids of 

 several species, too much digested for identification. 



*The results of the observations made at Grroat Eg^ Harbor wore x>»bli.shccl by the 

 writer in the Aincrican ISaturalist, vol. v, p. 397, 1871. 



