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Abundant in the lower Delaware and along the coast. In tide- 
water they ascend the Delaware as far as Trenton at least. Age, 
sex and color play a great part in the variation of this little fish. 
About the mud flats they are frequently met with in large schools, 
often associated with Fundulus diaphanus, and sometimes with 
other small fishes, as Enneacanthus gloriosus, Anguilla chrisypa, 
Umbra pygmea, Brama crysoleucas, young Eupomotis, Lepomis, 
Morone, Pomolobus and Erimyzon. At Cape May they are re- 
ported to be preyed on by most ducks, such as the red-breasted 
and common mergansers, great and little blue herons, green heron, 
bittern and other birds. They were not found in the fresh 
waters of Lily Lake at Cape May Point. They are more abun- 
dant than the preceding, and at times vast schools are found 
almost everywhere in meadow streams or pools. They run 
in with the tide, and if one should happen to pole his way up 
a small inlet the noise made by the efforts of these schools to 
swim by on the shallow water in order to escape would be found 
to be quite startling if not noticed before. In these cases I have 
never seen them altogether stranded, as they always finally wrig- 
gle back into the water. Sometimes a few silversides (Menidia 
mienidia notata) were found with them. Only very small min- 
nows were found back on the mainland, though everywhere abun- 
dant. 
Fundulus heteroclitus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 820.—Bean, 
Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 148.—Moore, Bull. U. S. F. 
Com., VII, 1887, p. 148.—Moore, Bull. U. $. F. Com., XII, 1892, 
p. 360. 
Fundulus zebra Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 342. 
A ydrargyra flavula Abbott, Am. Nat., IV, 1870, p. 115. 
Fundulus nigrofasciatus Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, p. 478. 
Fundulus diaphanus (Le Sueur). 
Minnow. Killy. Killie Fish. Dog Fish. Blunt Head. 
Barred Minnow. 
Head 3% ; depth 4%; D. 1v, 11; A. 11, 11; scales 47 in lateral 
line to base of caudal and 4 more in latter ; 29 scales before dorsal ; 
13 MU 
