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were reported from the same localities by various fishermen, but 

 none so large as this, which measured about 12 feet. They 

 were called ''santiagos" or ''Santiago/' the impression prevalent 

 among the fishermen being that the cannonading during the 

 Spanish-American War had forced them to retreat to more quiet 

 surroundings. The large example referred to was a male with 

 well-developed claspers, and was brown above and dirty-white 

 below when fresh. The lower surfaces of the fins were whitish 

 like the belly, and their upper surfaces dark like the back. Teeth 

 white and the iris slaty. Mr. H. ^^^alker Hand reports that large 

 sharks are common in shoal water during warm weather about 

 Cape May. They may be seen swimming about with the high 

 dorsal fin well exposed and hunting for soft-shell crabs. Though 

 I have no definite information concerning their breeding, pos- 

 sibly the larger ones may be there for the purpose of copulating 

 like their relatives are known to do. They also occur in the 

 Delaware Bay about Cape ]\'Iay occasionally. 



Squalus obscuriis Abbott, Geol. X. J., 1868, p. 828. 



Carcharias ohscunis Bean, Bull., U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, 

 p. 152. 



CarcJiarhiniis ohscurus IMoore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, 



p- 358. , 



Carcharhinus milberti (Miiller and Henle). 

 Small Blue Shark. White Shark. 



Head 5 ; depth 5>4 ; snout 2}i in head; width of mouth 2)4 ; 

 interorbital space lYs', front edge of first dorsal ij/^ ; pectoral 

 Ij4 ; length of caudal peduncle 2y=^; upper caudal lobe 3^ in 

 rest of body. Body strongly compressed, deepest at origin of 

 pectoral. A pit at root of caudal above and below. Head broad, 

 depressed, and profile of snout rather rounded as viewed from 

 above. Eye circular, midway in head. IMouth broadly crescent- 

 shaped, with a short fold only at each comer. Upper teeth less 

 serrated, not notched on outer margin. Lower teeth erect and 

 narrower, with fine serrations. Internasal space but little less than 

 snout when measured from front of upper jaw. First dorsal 



