FURTHER NOTES ON NEW JERSEY FISHES. 133 
Family ACIPENSERID. 
Acipenser sturio (Linnzus). 
Common Sturgeon. 
Color of young when fresh deep sandy-gray above, darkest on 
back, paler on side below, and lower surface milky-white almost 
entirely. Entire under surface of head extending up till level 
with lower edge of eye, milky-white. Shields on back and side 
all horny-gray in color, those along lower edge of body horny- 
white. Iris slaty with pale circle around whitish pupil. Dor- 
sal deep dusky-gray, edges of fin narrowly in front, and broadly 
above and behind, white. Caudal similar, only lower surface of 
caudal peduncle milky-white. Anal largely milky-white with a 
median blotch of dusky-gray. Spine and front edges of pectoral 
gray to milky-white, and fin otherwise deep dusky-gray, especi- 
ally dark distally. Ventral similar to anal, only paler inside. 
Length 934 inches. Found in the Delaware River at Washing- 
ton Park, Gloucester county, May 4th, 1907. Charles H. Conner. 
A mouche about 2 feet long was picked up on the bay shore at 
Green Creek on June gth, 1907. 
During the past season sturgeon fishing has been very poor, 
according to accounts at Pennsville, some fishermen not tales 
expenses, and others have stopped operations. 
Mr. J. B. Vanderveer believes that the sturgeon sleeps, as he 
has on one occasion at least found it floating on its back in an 
eddy formed by a rock in the Delaware at Trenton. This ex- 
ample was 6 or 7 feet long and was harpooned. 
Acipenser brevirostrum Le Sueur. 
Short Nosed Sturgeon. 
Head 43%, to last lateral shield; depth 6; width of head 1*/, in 
its length; depth of head at origin of first occipital buckler 134 ; 
snout 2*/,; eye 10; width of mouth, measured inside, 4; inter- 
orbital space 27/,; internasal space 4; length of dorsal measured 
