FURTHER NOTES ON NEW JERSEY FISHES. 1 
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Boleichthys fusiformis erochrous (Cope). 
Darter. 
Three taken in Crosswick’s Creek, near Trenton, on July 15th, 
1906. Mr. Henry Warrington secured it in the Rancocas Creek, 
near Medford, in January of 1899. 
Family SERRANIDA. 
Roccus lineatus (Bloch). 
Rock. 
Reported as “rock” in the tide-water of Dennis Creek, in Cape 
May county. In the latter it occurs all along the surf and bites 
well in Corson’s Inlet, which 1s famous for its “rock fishing.”’ 
They are also angled at Scotch Bonnet and Gray Channel. In 
Delaware Bay they occur from Cape May Point to Dennis Creek, 
and are also angled further up or at Maurice River. One taken 
at Wildwood in 1906 weighed 32 pounds, according to Mr. Hand. 
Recently, an example was taken in Cape May Inlet weighing 
about 15 pounds. 
Several small ones found in the ponds at Green Creek on May 
5th, 1907. They had all passed up the bay by June oth. 
Reported from Somers Point and Beesley’s Point in Great 
Egg Harbor Bay early in the summer. Also taken in the Tuck- 
ahoe River to the bridge, according to reports. 
Mr. J. B. Vanderveer, of Trenton, says the largest example 
he knows of taken in the river weighed 33 pounds. He thought 
that the rock fish spawns in Delaware Bay, though the young 
were taken in summer. 
Morone americana (Gmelin). 
White Perch. 
Reported to occur in the tide-water of Dennis Creek, in Cape 
May county. It ranges along the bay-shore from Cedar Hum- 
