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dusky. Anal translucent brownish, tinted with pale dusky dots. 
Ventral translucent brownish-white. Inside of gill-opening whit- 
ish with a greenish-olivaceous blotch specked with brownish. Iris 
brownish. Cape May in April, 1904. 
In the inlets and small brackish-water streams on the meadows, 
this species, together with the next and Menidia memdia notata, 
run in with the tide. Sometimes other small fish also go with them, 
though Fundulus is always the most abundant. It swims in rather 
large schools, usually a hundred or more, and 1f one approaches 
in a boat they make a great commotion in the shallow water along 
the banks, especially the larger ones, which are apt to become 
stranded on the mud. In some pools which dry up many perish 
and their parched bodies may be seen in numbers. Thousands of 
living examples were examined. About Cape May they were 
abundant, associated with the above mentioned fishes, together 
with Lucania and Cyprinodon, though not many were taken in 
the surf. Many perish in the freezing weather and are then 
eagerly devoured by gulls. They take the hook readily when 
baited with an earth-worm. At Stone Harbor they were found 
abundant with Menidia menidia notata in the surf. At Cape May 
the females, while not so abundant as the males, were frequently 
seen. ‘The females are marked very differently in color and may 
be distinguished at once by their several dark longitudinal stripes. 
Besides the above localities multitudes of examples were exam- 
ined from Anglesea, Sea Isle City, Ocean City, Beesley’s Point. 
Barnegat and Atlantic City. 
Hardrargyra majalis Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1863, p. 820. 
Fundulus majalis Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 147. 
—Moore, Bull. U. S$. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 360. 
Hardrargira flavula Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 
344- 
Fundulus heteroclitus macrolepidotus (Walbaum). 
PLATE 17. 
Minnow. Dog Fish. Killy. Killie. Killy Fish. River Minnow. 
Mummichog. Blunt Head. 
Head 3%; depth 3%; D. 1, 10; A.1, 9; scales 33 in lateral 
line to base of caudal and 3 more on latter; 22 scales before 
