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that any of the animals eaten were dead when found. This 

 certainly does not indicate the scavenger habits that have been 

 very frequently ascribed to bullheads. 



Sunfish food 



Pursuing the matter a little farther we examined the food of 25 

 sunfishcs (E u p o m o t i s g i b b o s u s), taken at the same 

 time and place as the bullheads, that is, July loth, in the weed 

 patch off the hatchery wharf at Old Forge pond. We selected, 

 of these, three sizes in order to determine if there were any 

 appreciable change of food with age of fish. The largest ex- 

 amined were approximately three inches in lenth (lot i), and 

 the next in size about two inches (lot 2) and the smallest were 

 between three fourths of an inch and an inch in length (lot 3). 

 All were taken together. The results of examination are given 

 in the following table: 



