136 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
The figure reproduced in Rep. N. J. State Mus., 1906, p. 86, 
is that of an adult, or probably old male, example of the com- 
mon sturgeon (Acipenser sturio). 
Dr. Kendall writes, ““we had a number of this species from the 
Delaware (Gloucester, N. J.) under the name of ‘mamoose.’ 
Those specimens are in the U. S. Nat. Mus., I think. They were 
not recognized by the fishermen. and even some ichthyologists 
were puzzled, but they were undoubtedly brevirostrum.” 
Family CLUPEIDZ. 
Pomolobus mediocris (Mitchill). 
Hickory Shad. 
Reported to occur in the tide-water of Cedar Swamp Creek 
near Petersburg. ‘They are also reported to ascend the Tucka- 
hoe River with the alewife. Mr. H. Walker Hand says it has 
been taken at Higbee’s Beach on the bay shore of Cape May 
county. 
Reported common in Great Egg Harbor Bay, according to the 
fishermen at Beesley’s Point, Somers Point, and Ocean City, who 
know it as “hickory shad.” 
Pomolobus pseudoharengus (Wilson). 
Alewife. 
According to Mr. Hand it occurs all along the bay shore from 
Cape May Point to Dennis Creek in the pounds. They also 
occur in the Tuckahoe and Middle Rivers. ‘They are the first 
fish to appear in the spring, coming with the rock, summer 
flounders and shad. Very abundant in the pounds about Green 
Creek on May 5th, 1907, and many were found gilled. About 
the fields we found them abundantly strewn with other fish as 
fertilizers. None were over 12 inches long. When remaining 
in the water any length of time after death their backs become 
more or less dull slaty-blackish. 
