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chal plates and opercle striate. Rings all well striate. Origin 
of dorsal a little behind first third in length of fish, on 4 body 
and 6 caudal rings, and height of fin about 134 in snout. Caudal 
rounded. Color olivaceous above, paler beneath. A dark streak 
along side of head. Length 63% inches. Sea Isle City. 
Color of the above in life or when fresh, dull olive-brownish 
above, and becoming paler on sides. At every fourth ring a 
darker or more olive-brown streak across back. A dusky-brown 
streak along side of snout to eye and then continued back from 
eye to base of pectoral, the color above well merged into the pale 
brown of the median portion of head. A pale brownish streak 
obliquely back from eye on side of head. Iris pale brassy, the dark 
lateral streak passing through and blotch due to posterior streak, - 
also a faint blotch anteriorly of deep brown. Lips brownish, 
and lower surface of beak brownish becoming pale and trans- 
lucent till reaching lower process. Each side of head below, or 
opercle and infero-pectoral region, tinted pale brassy or purplish. 
Lower surface of body pale brownish or whitish, that of tail 
darker. Dorsal and caudal brownish, caudal perhaps a little 
darker. Another example with similar data is more pale brown- 
ish, almost uniform above, and the abdomen and lower surface 
of head more brassy. Iris also more brassy. Opercle with green- 
ish sheen. 
My examples from Beesley’s Point, also 2 small examples from 
the surf at Stone Harbor, and others from Atlantic City in the 
eel-grass. The Stone Harbor examples were dark brown in life. 
Siphostoma fuscum Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VI, 1887, p. 
134.—Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 360.—Bean, 
Bull. Am, Mus: NH. DX egy p: 350. 
Syngnathus viridescens Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 
1854, p. 351. 
Syngnathus peckianus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 827.—Ver- 
rill, Am. Nat., V., 1871, p. 398. 
