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both edges, and covered by skin to near tip. When set they point 
almost sideways, and when depressed they lie inside the innomi- 
nate bones. Color brownish-olive, mottled with darker and dusky, 
silvery below. Ventrals of male with bright crimson membrane. 
Length 17/,, inches. Beesley’s Point. 
Color in life brownish-olivaceous generally, median line of 
back and top of head more brownish, and sides more olivaceous. 
Flanks with blackish mottlings or blotches. Back with about 
four or five dull or obscure dusky saddle-like blotches. A black- 
ish streak from tip of snout laterally to orbit. T’wo streaks of 
same color from behind orbit back along postorbital region of 
head. Lips dusky, and branchiostegal region same. Body with 
more or less translucent appearance, and peritoneum showing 
through abdomen with silvery and brassy reflections. Lower 
side of head also with similar colored reflections. Pectoral and 
caudal with dilute amber or gamboge tints. Dorsal brownish, 
except membranes behind first spine, which are tinted with deep 
scarlet. Pubic spines whitish. Anal fin dilute brownish. Iris 
brownish with dull olive reflections. An adult from Crosswicks 
Creek, near Trenton, May gth, 1905. 
Most abundant of all our fishes in the lower Delaware, par- 
ticularly in tide-water. In many places they swarm by the thou- 
sand among the eel-grass and aquatic vegetation. They are too 
small to be very dangerous to handle, though some of the larger 
ones are capable of pricking the skin and causing a little blood to 
flow by means of their set spines. I have only taken a very few 
solitary individuals above tide-water. 
Gasterosteus quadracus Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 
1854, p. 328. 
Apeltes quadracus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 815.—Abbott, 
Am. Nat., IV, 1870, p. 115.—Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, p. 
478.—Bean, Bull U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 146.—Moore, 
Bullyw. S. EF. Com., X11, 16@2) 9.7360. 

Family FISTULARIIDZ. 
The Cornet Fishes. 
Body extremely elongate, much depressed, broader than deep. 
Head very long, anterior bones of skull much produced, forming 
