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while others may be tied to the shore. They are always placed 

 in salt-water creeks and in tide-water. The eels are shipped 

 in ordinary closed freight cars and when packed alive in boxes 

 will live at least 48 hours with the only danger in freezing. 

 Many years ago eels were very abundant about the cancerine 

 (king crab) factory, where they fed on refuse, especially mag- 

 gots. They are also common in the mouth of the bay and in 

 the breakwater. In the tide-water of the Great Egg Harbor 

 River many young, of but several inches in length, were seen 

 swimming about among schools of Pundnlns. Most all were 

 transparent. At the dam at May's Landing numbers of them 

 were found squirming about as though they wished to ascend 

 above the tide-water. In the Delaware thousands of such small 

 eels are to be found during July and August wiggling about the 

 mud-flats. The usual method on the Delaware to fish for eels 

 is by bobbing, and they are sometimes hauled into the boat as 

 fast as one is able to cast. 



Anguilla chrysypa Moore, Bull, U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 

 360.— Smith, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 369.— Ever- 

 mann, Recreation, April, 1902, p. 292. 



Anguilla tenuirostris Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, 

 p. 350. — Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 825.— Abbott, Am. Nat. 

 IV, 1870, p. 391. 



Angtiilla macrocephala Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 826. 



Anguilla acutirostris Abbott, Rep. U. S. F. Com., 1875-76, 

 -p. 827. 



Anguilla vulgaris Jordan, An. N. Y. Acad. Sci., I, 1879, p. 119. 



Anguilla rostrata Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1883, p. 

 132. — Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, p. 479. — Bean, Bull, U. S. 

 Eish Com., VII, 1887, p. 151. 



Anguilla rostra Lockwood, Am. Nat., XIX, 1885, p. 405. 



Family LEPTOCEPHALID^. 



The Conger Eels. 



Body moderately elongate. Tongue free, largely in front. 

 Posterior nostril remote from upper lip and near front of eye. 



