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Table 7. — Fish remains in stomach contents of whiting from Boca Grande, Fla., 1917. 
Standard length of example 
in centimeters. 
Fish remains. 
Description. 
Length in 
centimeters. 
4.0 
Menticirrhus americanus 
1.1 
3.5 
Caudal half of a post-larval fish 
3.6 
Unidentifiable fish 
1. 5 
3.6 
Two post-larval clupeoids 
1 .3 
3.4 
Vertebral columns of three individuals 
3.7"::::::::::::::::.:::.:.:.: 
Vertebral columns of two individuals 
3.2 
Caudal half of a post-larval fish 
1 Each. 
During the winter cruise of 1916-17 the Grampus took the following three 
catches : 
Off Fernandina, Fla., January 10, 1917. — Of six examples, 7 to 13 cm. long, 
taken in a shrimp trawl one was empty. 
Volumetric 
percentage. 
Shrimps 40 
Unidentified crustaceans 20 
Polychset worms 20 
Pish (fragments) 20 
Off San Luis, Tex., Station 10478, March 9, 1917. — At a depth of from 5 to 10 
fathoms seven examples, 9 to 18 cm. long, were taken. 
Volumetric 
percentage. 
Crabs 7 
Shrimps 7 
Unidentified crustaceans 29 
Unidentified material 57 
Off Texas coast, no label. — Of eight examples, 8 to 14 cm. long, three were 
empty. The food of the remainder, given in volumetric percentages, was as follows : 
Crabs, 10; polychset worms, 90. 
Fernandina, Fla., March, 1920. — The 47 examples, 12 to 25 cm. long, taken 
in a shrimp trawl had apparently been feeding lightly, although none of the digestive 
tracts was found completely empty. Only a single stomach was found distended 
with food. 
Volumetric 
percentage. 
Shrimps 20 
Small crabs 7 
Polychset worms 24 
Pish 6 
Unidentified material 43 
The results indicate that their food is about equally divided between crustaceans 
and polychset worms (possibly Nerius) with occasional slight quantities of small 
fish. A considerable portion of the food had been reduced to a homogeneous paste 
that defied analysis. About one-sixth of the unidentified material can probably 
be referred to various small invertebrates; the remainder was distinctly past 
identification. 
