FURTHER NOTES ON NEW JERSEY FISHES. 137 
Mr. B. W. Griffiths says they ascend the tide-water of the 
south branch of Timber Creek to Blackwood, in Camden 
county. Hundreds were taken there in the spring of 1900, when 
there was a great run. Several were seen along the bay shore 
at Green Creek on June oth, 1907, and again on June 23d. Mr. 
H. Walker Hand reports herring as biting readily on shrimp late 
in July of 1907, about Cape May. 
In Great Ege Harbor Bay it was reported very abundant, 
during last spring, about Somers Point, in the Great Egg 
Harbor River, Ocean City, Beesley’s Point, and in the Tuckahoe 
River as far as Tuckahoe. It is known as “herring.” 
According to Mr. J. B. Vanderveer, of Trenton, the fishermen 
would formerly stop the herring in their ascension during the 
spring so that many would happen to spawn there. This was due 
to so many examples congregating in places where there were 
obstructions, and then they were taken by thousands. Persistent 
muddy water also seemed to check them so that they frequently 
spawned in great numbers between Trenton and Bordentown. 
Mr. Vanderveer says the “alewife’’ generally appears 2 or 3 weeks 
earlier than the so-called “rail herrin.” 
Mr. B. W. Griffiths has seen them in the spring in Mantua 
Creek as far as Wenonah, Gloucester county. 
Pomolobus zstivalis (Mitchill). 
Black Bellied Herring. Black Belly. Rail Herrin. Real Herring. 
Mr. J. B. Vanderveer reports that a herring, with a distinctly 
black peritoneum, ascends the Delaware tide-water as far as 
Trenton, where he has captured many hundreds of them. They 
appear later than the alewife and spawn nearer shore, the latter, 
more like the shad, preferring deeper water. He describes them. 
as more slender and slightly differing in color from the alewife. 
I reject Dr. Bean’s contention of Storer’s name Alosa cyanonoton 
for this species, as the latter’s description and figure are both that 
of the alewife, he evidently having confused this species, but not 
described it under that name. This view is suggested by Dr. 
Kendall. ; 
