332 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY ST+.TE MUSEUM. 
Distinguished from the preceding by the scaleless soft dorsal 
and anal. 
Rare and casual on our coast. An excellent food-fish closely 
resembling the preceding. It occurs sometimes at Sea Isle City 
and Cape May. 
Cynoscion nebulosus Smith, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 
377.—Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. XLVII, 
II, 1898, p. 1409. 
Cynoscion carolinensis Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 810. 
Cynoscion maculatus Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 
140. 
Genus BAIRDIELLA Gill. 
The Mademoiselles. 
Bairdiella chrysura (Lacépéde). 
PLATE 63. 
Silver Perch. 
Head_ 2455 "depthi-344% Dr Xs 21 Aw 1), 10, sscales about 
58 in lateral line to base of caudal with several more on latter; 
about 6 scales from origin of spinous dorsal obliquely back to 
lateral line; 12 scales in a vertical series between lateral line and 
origin of anal; snout 4 in head, measured from tip of upper 
jaw; eye 344; maxillary 2; third dorsal spine 2; third dorsal 
ray 214; second anal spine 214; second anal ray 2; caudal 13% ; 
pectoral 134; ventral 134; ventral spine 344. Body ovate- 
elongate, profiles similar. Head large, upper profile a trifle con- 
cave over eye. Snout convex and short. Eye circular, anterior. 
Mouth large, mandible apparently projecting. Maxillary long, 
nearly to posterior border of pupil. Head scaly, and scales on 
side large. Scales on costal region also large. Small scales 
crowded on bases of rayed dorsal, anal and caudal. Spinous dor- 
sal inserted a little behind origin of pectoral and graduated from 
subequal third and fourth spines which are longest. Rayed dor- 
sal begins before anal or its origin falling a trifle nearer base of 
caudal than posterior margin of pupil, and fin of more or less 
