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lateral band very distinct. ‘Those we secured were a little larger 
than N. chalybeus. 
Family SILURIDA. 
Ameiurus catus (Linneus). 
White Cat Fish. 
Small forked tailed cats, reported as “white cats,” were said to 
occur in the larger pond at Dennisville, in Cape May county, on 
September 16th, 1906. 
Mr. J. B. Vanderveer describes a cat fish as formerly, at least, 
very abundant in the Delaware about Trenton, where they would 
ascend in May to feed on the little oval shells, though appearing 
again latein the summer. They were called “silver tails.’’ Some- 
times schools would be found floating down stream, the fishes 
well inclined, with just the tips of their noses out of water and 
producing a constant bubbling, or sibilant noise, when quantities 
were captured by sweeping around them with nets. 
Ameiurus natalis prosthistius (Cope). 
Pine Barrens Cat Fish. 
Small black cat-fish, with truncated tails were said to differ 
from the “yellow cat’? and the “white cat” by the fishermen at 
Dennisville, in Cape May county. They occur in the larger pond 
and may possibly be this species. ‘They are taken at night, or in 
the evening, with earth-worm bait, as they rarely take the hook 
during the day. During the week of September 19th, 1906, 3 
were taken. 
Ameiurus nebulosus (Le Sueur). 
Yellow Cat Fish. 
Mr. H. Walker Hand reports that cat fish occur in Green 
Creek Run, at White Reach in the head of Dias Creek and 
Ross’s mill pond, tributary to Fishing Creek, Cape May county. 
