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end of Long Island, where we were detained until the 26th by fog. 
Eight* vessels left in company with us. After passing Mon tank these 
vessels sailed about east-southeast, and were joined by several coming 
from the westward. We saw two seiners anchored at Block Island and 
ten in the harbor of Newport. 
May 29 there were about twenty mackerel fishermen in Newport 
Harbor, several of which left with their boats on deck, probably bound 
home. 
May 30 there were about twenty-seven sail among the fish, 10 or 12 
miles east-southeast from Block Island. 
May 31 there were twenty-one sail in the vicinity of No Man’s Land 
and Martha’s Vineyard, mostly working towards Vineyard Sound. Some 
vessels, however, abreast of No Man’s Land had their jibs to windward. 
At 10.15 of this day as we were tacking through Vineyard Sound I 
counted 16 fishermen jogging to the northwest of No Man’s Land, while 
several others were working through Vineyard Sound. 
NOTES ON FISHES. 
LOPHIUS P1SCATORIUS. 
April 23. A few young examples were caught in a purse-seine by 
Oapt. Sol Rowe, 30 miles off Hog Island, in company with Prionotus , 
Clupea, Squalus , and young Scomber. 
May 12. In north latitude 38° 40', west longitude 73° 53', a young 
individual about a centimeter long was taken at the surface. 
May 30. See under “Fish Eggs” an account of the egg-masses seen 
in Narragansett Bay. 
HIPPOGKLOSSQIDES, Sp. 1 
May 22. In about north latitude 39° 45', west longitude 73° 49', four 
young examples of a flounder which appears to be Hippoglossoides plates - 
soides were taken at the surface at 8 in the evening ; the largest is 17 
millimeters long, its dorsal fin has about 80 rays, and traces of several 
cross-bands on the sides are plainly visible as in young Aphoristia ; the 
tail is somewhat produced and tapering. 
CITHARICHTHYS, sp. 
April 27. Some specimens were found in stomachs of hake in north 
latitude 37° 43', west longitude 74° 15'. 
HIPPOGLOSSUS VULGARIS. 
Captain Williams, of the G. P. Whitman , says that he knows of the 
capture of this fish off the Delaware coast. 
CORYPH^ENOIDES RUPESTRIS. 
A single specimen was found floating alive at the surface in north 
latitude 36° 50', west longitude 74° 33', by Oapt. Sol Rowe, of the 
schooner William U- Poye , 
