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Table of Measurements — Continued. 





Millim. 



lOOths. 



a u' i 11 . 





25 

 ca. 15J 



50 

 ca. 12 



T pnotli fit' PvtPT'iiol riivQ 









DistsncG l*roiu snout) 



r pti crt v> 





T ) 1 fitinpp ■fpnm Qtinnt 











vi 



12 

 13 



XIII, 18, XII 

 18 

 II, 12 



ca. GO 

 ca. 3J 

 ca. 4 















Pectoral 









2s umber of scales in lateral line 

















OX THE OCCERREXCE OF TEE OCEAXIC BOX1TO, OREYXES PELAMTS, 

 (E1XXE) POEY, IX YIXEYARD SOEXO, xlIASSACHESETTS. 



By VltfAL IV. EDWARDS. 



Mr. P. Stewart has caught between SO and ICO of them in his pound* 

 in about three weeks. He caught 52 one morning. In Luce's pound* 

 they have caught between 00 and 70. They catch them with a northerly 

 wind ; none with the wind oft' shore. Tb ey will not live long in the pound, 

 but will run themselves to death, and their brilliant blue color all fades 

 out as soon as they are dead. 



Wood's Holl. Mass., October 1, lSTS. 



NOTES OX THE WESTERN GIZZARD SHAD, DOR0303IA CEPEDIA* 

 NEM HE TEREK EM, (RAE.) JORDAN. 



By SAIUUEL, WILMOT. 



Sir : I send you by post a small fish takeu by one of our fishermen at 

 Sarnia on Lake Huron. It was sent to me by one of our officers, with a 

 request that I should let him know what sort of fish it was. It seems 

 they think it to be a young shad. Fish very similar in appearance to 

 this one have been known in Lake Ontario and other of our waters for 

 many years ; I recollect them forty years ago. They were not taken 

 numerously in those days, a few being captured at times in seines, and 

 sometimes in gill-nets, which were set out in very deep waters in the 

 lake for the purpose of taking salmon trout : those taken in the gill-nets 

 would be sometimes a pound in weight; the great run of them, however, 



*These pounds are in Meuemsha Bight, Martha's Vineyard. 



