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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



BROAD NOSED CROCODILE. 



AQUARIUM NOTES. 



Striped Bass. — There still remain at the 

 Aquarium two specimens of Striped Bass (Roc- 

 cus lineatus) which were brought in for exhibi- 

 tion May 3 4, 1894. As they were two years 

 old when taken, these specimens, if they live un- 

 til next spring, will be twenty years old. 



Wandering Trunk Fish. — The capture of a 

 trunk fish, presumably (Lactophrys trigonnus) 

 in great South Bay, Long Island, in August, 

 1911, is reported by Miss Eleanor D. Wood, of 

 Islip, Long Island. This tropical species occa- 

 sionally strays as far north in summer as South- 

 ern Massachusetts. C. H. T. 



Xight Opening at the Aquarium. — Beginning 

 with May 30, the Aquarium was kept open to 

 the public until ten o'clock at night through the 

 summer months until September 30. The aver- 

 age nightly attendance after the usual closing 

 hour was 1,395 and the largest attendance on 

 any one night was that of June 4, when 6,934 

 persons viewed the exhibits. 



Transplanting Turtles. — In the summer of 

 1909 I liberated three pairs of Blanding's Tur- 

 tle (Emys blandingi) and three pairs of the 

 Map Turtle (JMalacoclemmys geographicd) in 

 southern Orange County, New York. As some 

 of these turtles or their progeny may eventual- 

 ly fall into the hands of naturalists, it is desir- 

 able that a record be made of their introduction. 

 All of the specimens were placed at Little Long 



Pond, near Southfields and all were collected in 

 Erie County, Ohio. C. H. T. 



Local Tuna Fishing. — In the Bulletin for 

 November, 1910, mention was made of the fact 

 that the Great Tuna {Thunnus thynnus) had 

 been captured a number of times with rod and 

 reel at Barnegat, New Jersey. We are pleased 

 to note that this was no sporadic occurrence of 

 this king of game fishes as a number of cap- 

 tures have been made again this season. Two 

 of these, as reported by Mr. Hartie I. Phillips 

 in Forest and Stream for October 7, were taken 

 from the beach while casting for channel bass. 



Cobia or Crab-eater. — A small specimen of 

 this fish (Rachycentron canadus), about six 

 inches long, was taken on a hook by Mr. B. F. 

 Garrison of New York City in Goose Creek, Ja- 

 maica Bay, Long Island, on August 27, 1911, 

 while fishing for kingfish. The species reaches 

 a length of five feet and ranges in warm seas 

 around the world. As Jordan and Evermann 

 remark the species was "named for Canada 

 where it does not occur." It is rare in this lo- 

 cality though it has been taken as far north as 

 Massachusetts Bay, and there is no previous 

 local record of a small specimen. It. C. O. 



Additional Key West Specimens. — Mr. Dan- 

 forth B. Ferguson's generous gift of Key West 

 fishes to the Aquarium has been noted else- 

 where. In this collection there are five species 

 of fishes not previously exhibited here. These 

 are: the Scamp (Mycteroperca phenax) one of 



