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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
LAKE STURGEON' (ACIPENSER Rl'BICUNDUS) 
This specimen from Lake Huron is five feet long. 
Photograph hy Elwin R. Sanborn. 
Current, Ontario. They were transported by 
freight ear in wooden tanks seven feet square 
and five feet deep, the water being kept in 
circulation by a kerosene-driven engine. The 
loss of fishes during transportation amounted 
to only fifteen per cent, and these being trans¬ 
ferred to ice and sold, the loss was negligible. 
A large concrete tank abundantly supplied 
with flowing water has been constructed in 
Fulton Market, in which the fishes are held until 
sold. 
The idea in shipping live fishes to market is 
to deliver as perfect a product in New York 
as possible. 
In addition to lake trout there were several 
other species of fishes including sturgeon and 
pike. The Aquarium took advantage of the 
opportunity to add a number of lake trout, 
sturgeon, catfish and large suckers to its collec¬ 
tion of fishes from the Great Lakes. The lake 
sturgeons are the largest of this species ever 
received at the Aquarium, two of them exceed¬ 
ing five feet in length. 
The weight of a sixty-one inch sturgeon was 
fifty-seven and a half pounds. 
This shipment was proposed and managed 
hy Mr. G. Friedrichs, who has already made 
large deliveries of live eels in New York. On 
one of his trips 165,000 pounds of live eels were 
brought from Quebec in specially constructed 
barges, which were towed through Lake Champ¬ 
lain and down the Hudson River. C. II. T. 
PIRATE PERCHES 
By Ida M. Mellen 
IF FI CULT little fishes to favor in cap¬ 
tivity, but interesting as any that come to 
our nets in local fresh waters, are the 
pirate perches (Apliredoderus sayanus ). De¬ 
spite their formidable name, the pirates are 
rather timid creatures as far as human beings 
are concerned, and real pigmies for North 
American waters, never exceeding five inches 
in length and rarely three. 
It was their voraciousness that won them the 
