156 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
On May 5th, 1907, large schools of small examples were 
found in the brackish water at the mouth of Green Creek and 
also in the fresh water of the latter as it flowed over the beach 
at ebb-tide. Later on, June gth they, or others, were also seen. 
A number were seen about brackish runs, coursing over the 
beach at intervals, on June 23d. The darker ones were probably 
spawning males in full breeding-dress. 
Found very abundant along the shallows at Barnegat Pier on 
July 30th, 1907. The sexes were in high color, and the females 
evidently gravid. 
About Ocean City Point they were equally abundant with the 
may fish on August 16th, 1907. They were not so brilliantly 
colored as early in the season, and occurred in large schools in 
the tide-pools, though not at all in the surf. 
Very abundant in Pierce’s pond at Higbee’s Beach in Cape 
May county, on October 6th, 1907. They collect in great schools 
along the shallows in clear water, and are difficult to secure ex- 
cept by seining. Only a few were found in the streams. Rather 
abundant in the marshes about the boggy roots of the cat tails of 
Teal’s Branch of Pond Creek, where the water is 3 or 4 inches 
deep. ‘They associate with F. diaphanus, were mostly small in 
size, dull in color, and ripple the water greatly in their efforts 
to find concealment when disturbed. October 15th, 1907. 
Fundulus diaphanus (Le Sueur). 
Barred Killifish. 
Taken at Sea Isle City on July 19th, 1906, in small numbers, 
by Mr. W. J. Fox and myself. 
On October toth, 1906, a number were seen in a cut-off of the 
tributary of the Delaware at Trenton Junction, in Mercer county. 
In one place it was very shallow and warm. Here a school of 
probably a dozen were seen, each of small or moderate size. In 
this instance the appropriateness or the specific name was very 
evident, for on approaching the banks dark objects could be seen 
moving about, which on close examination proved to be only the 
shadows of the fish themselves. The latter were hardly evident 
