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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
FALL AND WINTER EGGS IN OTHER PLACES. 
The conclusion that the production of eggs in the fall and winter is of general 
occurrence throughout the entire range of the lobster is supported by the observations 
recorded in table 13. Here are eggs, none of them laid during the summer months, 
coming from a wide area from the middle and eastern parts of the Maine coast, from 
the outward islands, and from the province of New Brunswick. They are compared, 
as before, with the rate of development of summer eggs observed at Woods Hole 
[lobster No. 3 (1) to (20), table 18]. In one instance, No. 20, the yolk is unsegmented, 
though taken in February; in others the egg nauplius, which in summer appears at 
about the fourteenth day, is barely outlined. 
Table 13. — Stage of development of eggs laid in fall and 'winter on the coasts of Maine and Province of 
New Brunswick. 
No. 
Date. 
Locality. 
Stage of 
development. 
No. 
Date. 
Locality. 
Stage of 
development. 
1893. 
1894. 
1 
Nov. 10 
Isle au Haute 
Like 3 (9). 
21 
Feb. 5 
Matinicus Island 
Like 3 (10). 
2 
Nov. 15 
York Island 
Late segmen- 
22 
Feb. 8 
Ragged Island 
Like 3 (8). 
tat ion of 
23 
Feb. 10 
Isle au Haute 
Like 3 (10). 
yolk (?). 
24 
Feb. l'O 
Isle au Haute 
Like 3 (9). 
3 
Nov. 25 
Cranberry Isle 
Egg nauplius. 
25 
Feb. 14 
Long Island 
Like 3 (4). 
Earlier than 
26 
Feb. 17 
Matinicus Island . . - . 
Like 3 (10). 
4 (3). 
27 
Feb. 21 
Mount Desert. 
Like 3 (8) . 
4 
Dec. 11 
Like 3 (9). 
28 
Feb. 22 
1894. 
29 
Mar. 1 
Cranberry Isle 
Like 3 (10). 
5 
Jan. 11 
Beaver Harbor, Bay 
Like 3 (10). 
30 
Mar. 1 
North Haven 
Like 3 (5) - 
of Fundy. 
31 
Mar. 10 
Isle au Haute 
Like 3 (10). 
6 
32 
Jan. 15 
Cranberry Isle 
Like 3 (10). 
33 
Mar. 15 
York Island 
Like 3 (9). 
8 
Jan. 17 
34 
9 
Like 3 (10). 
35 
Like 3 (9). 
10 
Jan. 18 
Musquash Bay, 35 m. 
Like 3 (9). 
36 
Mar. 27 
Fox Island. 
Like 3 (9). 
east of Eastport. 
37 
Mar. 20 
Matinicus Island 
Like 3 (9). 
n 
Jan. 19 
Seeley Basin, 24 m. 
Like 3 (10). 
38 
Mar. 30 
Brimstone Island 
Like 3 (11). 
from Eastport. 
39 
Anr. 1 
Swan Island 
Like 3 (9). 
12 
Jan. 20 
Baker Island. 
Like 3 (10). 
40 
Apr. 5 
Fox Island 
Like 3 (10). 
13 
Like 3 (9). 
41 
Like 3 (10). 
14 
Jan. 21 
42 
just visible. 
43 
Apr. 24 
Eastport 
Like 3 (10). 
15 
Jan. 22 
10 miles from St. 
Like 3 (10). 
44 
Apr. 26 
Deer Island, 4 miles 
Like 3 (111. 
John. N. B. 
from Eastport. 
16 
Jan. 24 
18 miies from St. 
Like 3 (10). 
45 
Apr. 30 
Eastport 
Like 3 (11). 
John, N. B. 
46 
Apr. 30 
I.slesboro 
LikeS (11). 
17 
Jan 27 
47 
Like 3 (11). 
egg nauplius. 
48 
June 10 
Matinicus Island 
Like 3 (9). 
18 
Jan. 29 
49 
19 
Jan. 17 
50 
20 
Feb. 4 
Matinicus Island 
Yolk u n seg- 
51 
June 20 
High Island 
Like 3 (11). 
men ted. 
Mr. N. F. Trefethen, of Portland, who deals extensively in lobsters, and who has 
a lobster pound in South Bristol, 35 miles east of Portland, believes that some lobsters 
in that vicinity spawn in June. In support of this view he cited the following case: 
In the latter part of May, 1893, he placed 20,000 lobsters in his pound and took them 
all out at intervals in the mouth of July, beginning the first of the month. All the 
lobsters had been examined before they were placed in the pound, and none of them 
were known to be with spawn. At the most only a relatively few egg lobsters could 
have been put into the pound by accident. When taken out about one-third of the lob- 
sters had spawn attached to the body. It is thus evident that some of these females 
must have laid their eggs in June or in the first part of July. No tally was kept of 
the proportion of egg-lobsters taken out during the first part, the middle, and the 
latter part of July, and it is possible that the great number of egg-lobsters, which 
