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1907. Although taken in this dark or deeply stained water it 
appeared to be more _ yellowish-olive generally than most 
examples. 
Enneacanthus gloriosus (Holbrook). 
Blue Spotted Sun Fish. 
Abundant in the pool near Pensauken, along the Pensauken 
Creek. Many taken on January 7th, 1906, and all adults. Color, 
when fresh, brownish-olive, spots obscure and dull, though some- 
times more or less golden. Anal mostly with a decided dull wine- 
color tint. No transverse dark.bands and opercular blotch size of 
pupil. 
A small example found in the second cedar-stained stream 
above Dennisville, in Cape May county, on September 19th, 1906. 
Color in life olivaceous generally, becoming paler or pale 
brownish below. Bright coppery ‘reflections on opercle below 
breast and costal region. Opercle with a black blotch size of 
pupil. Mandible spotted like side of head. Iris warm purplish 
with reddish and dusky tints. Body spotted with dilute metallic 
ereenish, most conspicuously so on opercle and side of head. On 
body underlaid transverse bands rather distinct. Dorsal dilute 
olive-brown, spotted with pale brownish or milky-green. Anal 
with a tinge of metallic wine-color, spotted with same tint as on 
body. Caudal like back, with fine spots similar over greater medi- 
an portion of membranes, like those on dorsal. Pectoral dilute 
saffron. Ventral transparent, with basal anterior rays dusky their 
whole length. Length 3% inches. Very abundant in the debris, 
grass, sphagnum, etc., along the Pensauken Creek, near Pen- 
sauken, April 28th, 1907. 
Numerous small examples were evidently this species, which 
were taken in the Rancocas Creek above New Lisbon on May 
12th, 1907. 
Three small pale examples were taken with Umbra in a muddy 
pool along south branch of Big Timber Creek, near Grenloch, 
Camden county, on May 19th, 1907. Fins not reddish and spots 
pale. On October 20th several with ruddy at bases of rayed 
dorsal and anal fins, and opercular spot nearly as large as pupil, 
