428 SEVENTH REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AXD GAME COMMISSION. 



I inch to 2 l /i inches long were obtained in Great Egg Harbor Bay, N. J., early in 

 August. 



The young of the Silver Perch are found every summer in Gravesend Bay, and 

 adults are to be seen occasionally. On September 8, 1896, Mr. DeNyse took an 

 example I J 4 inches long with a shrimp net, in eel grass back of the flats at extreme 

 low tide. Pools containing 2 feet of water are common here, and many species of 

 fish become imprisoned in them. In August Mr. W. I. DeNyse has captured a 

 half dozen adult Hippocampus in such localities. On October 5, 1896, and again 

 in the fall of 1897, the Silver Perch was obtained in the bay. 



YELLOW TAIL. 



The species seldom exceeds 10 inches in length, but is regarded as an excellent 

 pan fish, and is secured in enormous numbers. 



124. Red Drum ; Channel Bass (Scicenops ocellatus Linnaeus). 



Scicena imberbis MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 411, 1815, New York. 

 Connna ocellata DEK.AY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 75, pi. 21, fig. 61, 1842, New York ; HOL- 



BROOK, Ichth. S. C., ed. i, 149, pi. 21, fig. 2, 1856. 

 Scnenops ocellatus BEAN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, 367, 1897, New Jersey ; H. M. 



SMITH, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 101. 1898 ; JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. 



Nat. Mus., 1453, 1898, pi. CCXXXII, fig. 567, 1900. 



The Red Drum is one of the largest of the food fishes of the southern waters, 

 reaching the length of 5 feet and the weight of 75 pounds. It inhabits the Atlantic 

 coast from New York to Texas, and has once been taken near Cape Cod. 



A Red Drum, or Spotted Bass, weighing 14 pounds, was obtained by Mr. E. G. 

 Blackford from New Jersey, and was purchased alive for the New York Aquarium. 



