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is certain there are several varieties of the common her- 

 ring differing in size, shape, and solidity of flesh. In 

 Fortune Bay the spawn is deposited in the months of 

 March and April ; in St. George's Bay, in the month of 

 May, and a fortnight later on St. Barbe's. My impres- 

 sion is that on the southern shore of the Labrador coast 

 the spawn is deposited in June, or early in July. During 

 the 'months of August and September the Labrador 

 coast from Mecatina to Bear Island is visited by vast 

 shoals of large fat herring, v^rhich have in them neither 

 roe nor milt. I consider these herring, by their size and 

 appearance, to be of the same species or the same shoal 

 as those which spawned in St. George's Bay, in May or 

 in June, on the Labrador coast, and which pass on in 

 September and October to the Arctic waters, or more 

 probably to the depth of the ocean. 



" Of late years herring-seines have been much used on 

 the Labrador coast, almost entirely superseding the use 

 ■of nets, to the manifest injury of the fishing population. 

 These immense seines, most of them more than one 

 hundred and twenty fathoms long, often enclose over 

 three thousand barrels of herring. During the first two 

 to three years over one hundred and fifty seines were 

 used on the coast by Nova Scotia fishermen." 



Batrachia. 



Rana septentrionalis Baird. Okkak. Frogs were 

 heard and seen at Stag Bay, Domino Harbor, Lewis 

 Bay, Henley Harbor, and on the coast of the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence. 



Bufo americana Lee. Salmon Bay. 



