100 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Color of the above when fresh, brownish on back, in some lights 
of ecru-drab tint, in other more olive, and most all overshot with 
bright silvery or metallic reflections. Margin of each scale till 
about level with eye more or less distinctly olivaceous, made up 
of fine or minute dusky dots which become more sparse and paler 
or with a nearly faded appearance as they approach the lower 
costal region. In fact they do not descend below the origin of 

Shad. Alosa sapidissima (Wilson). 
(Upper figure male, lower female.) 
the pectoral. In some lights back is overshot with beautiful 
brassy, blue and golden reflections, and in others. they incline to 
delicate purple. This is especially noticeable on cheek and region 
of peritoneum. Head beautiful olivaceous above tinted with 
golden, this latter shade extending down on opercles. Jaws and 
adipose eyelid pale translucent brownish. After death sides of 
