2l8 BUIvLETiN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



they are often left to perish. Well-nigh incredible accounts of the "windrows" of dead 

 lobsters left by fierce storms on the shores of New Brunswick and of other maritime 

 provinces were current in the earlier days of the fishery. Thus ^nce (218 ) speaks of 

 a memorable storm along the Shippegan shore, Gloucester County, New Brunswick, 

 in 1873, and states that as many as 2,000 dead lobsters were counted in the distance of 

 2 rods. 



The writer qnf*^'''^ tih/-.i7o q1^<-. cppf)]^«; r>f {-hp fish crow (Corvus fruaile nyii.^ ^^ Vfl-j 

 destructive to lobsters on parts of the coast of Nova Scotia, where he says "w hpn thp 

 tide goes down these birds destrov the lobsters left amongst the seaweed. They pierce 

 the shield of the lobster where the heart and main blood vessels are situated, and the 

 crustacean is at once rendered helpless and is devoured by its assailant." I have seldom 

 kno wn the lobster to be stranded in this wav in calm weather. The adolescent InhstprSj^ 

 which alone remain in near the shores, ordinarilv go deep down among the lonsp_s.tones, 

 where neither crow nor any other bird could possibly dislodge them. 



