Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-08

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the intestine forty inches. In IL wac
found FIVE baokbones of large fishes, q
one pound msckersl and the pen of q
rquld. The ovoracls were over green
ly In color and not very ripe. On
May 5 another was taken In p shsd
net. 1t weighed forty-aix pounds.
The stomach Of this one was nearly
empty, only one.hslf of a small mack.
eral being found.
cater the striped bscs l has e next
paid attention To the cod. As far as
is known 1t IL omriverouF. l believe
that 1t will eat everything It comes
across. / have found In those cod 1
have examined rock crabs, hermit
crsbs, sea snemones, sea cucumhers,
fishes of all kinds, shrimps and vari.
Gus upecies of crustsossns. In almost
every cod l opened l have discovered
a very large t%epeworn. Il is generally
found In the pyloric portion of the To-
testines. One of these worms was
over elk feet In leng,h. In addition
to the tapeworms the presence Of
round worms, about the length Of a
%lucifer match, but not quite as thick,
is quite common In the intestines of
the cod.
The work on the shsd commenc ed
on April 20, when out of q lot OF
North River shad food was only found
In the stomach Of one Of them. Ii
contained q few small shrimp and o
f.h's scale. On the 26sh another
North River shad's stomach was found
to bo full of small shrimp.
"The common mackerel, or fresh
mackerel as 1t Ia called, Ia quite abund.
ant this season. AG first I found In
every stomach of these fishes q sehall
reddish crustscean, but 1t was too
much decomposed to determine what
1t really a In color and consisten.
oy 1t resembled snchovy paste and In
smell potter lobster. Since then
have discovered small shrimp of vari
GUS kinds, none of them being ovel
one quarter of an Inch In length"
Professor Rice then examined al
eel five and one-half pounds In weight,
three and a.half feet long, that hst
been caught at Jacks Reef, Ssnecs
river, Onondaga county. 1t was q fe,
male. Nothing was found In It'll
stomach, nor has any food been dis
covered as yet In the stomachs of these
cells that have been examined.
Twenty bluefish that were taken of
Cape Hatteras, N. O, on May 10
we're received here two days later
The professor, In examining The
stomaohs Of these fish, found the re
representatives. Of fourteen varieties o.
6sh. They were the b~utterfoh, spring
herring, Lafayette, gurnard or seI
robin, stargszer or sea raven, small
bluefish, kingfsh, mossbunksr, weak
fish and crabs, and the back
bones and decomposed fragment
Of four other species. The frs
bluefsh In this vicinity were caugh
eff Barnegat or the 18th, and weighed
about two pounds each. During thei
stay In our waters Professor Rice will
have an opportunity of investigator,
the eplcuresn tastes of the fish that i
credited with having a psnchsnt TO
euchre decks and tin tobacco boxes.
A male mossbunker, the frat of tn
season, who wac escorting a school o
lady shad, was taken on May 4. HI
stomach contained decayed materla
supposed to be small fish. In thre
porgies a few fish scales were foun,
buried In a ohyle-like substance.
male black bass contained the sam
milky fluid, and in two male sea has
caught In Narraganset Bay were foun
the remains of small fishes. On tn
10th instant both cod and shad wer
found to contain nothing In thei
stomachs. Professor Rice has no,
examined owe 100 fish, and no dont
will continue his examination durin
the season.