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and with several indistinct traces behind. Head grayish-brown 
above, this color soiling mandible in front. Body all more or 
less silvery-white, with beautiful burnished mercury effects. 
Dorsal and caudal grayish-dusky, basally somewhat tinted dilute 
olivaceous, and lower margin of lower lobe whitish. Other fins 
all more or less whitish, margin of pectoral grayish above. Iris 
silvered. Length 12% inches. Three examples July 18th, 1906. 
Sea Isle City. Mr. Wm. J. Fox. 
Mr. H. W. Hand says they are taken in the pounds and nets 
about Cape May. 
Pomolobus pseudoharengus (Wilson). 
Alewife. 
Color in life with back olivaceous-dusky, though only su- 
periorly. Upper surface of head dusky, and this color extend- 
ing down on mandible, where it shades out below. A dull 
greenish-dusky shoulder blotch. Scales beautifully washed with 
mercury-silver, and back overshot with purplish or lilac tints. 
Scales on back down for about 5 series underlaid with pale lilac 
longitudinal stripes. Iris silvery, dusky above. Head below 
_ eye silvery-white. Inside of gill-opening whitish, speckled with 
dusky tints. Side of head with brassy reflections. Lower fins 
translucent brownish, paler basally, and distal portions tinted 
brownish inclining to a dull dusky. Upper edge of pectoral 
dusky. Scales on base of caudal silvery. Adult. Cedar Swamp 
Creek tide-water at Petersburg in Cape May County, April 16th, 
1906. T. D. Keim and H. W. Fowler. These fish run in above 
the dam, and quite a number are taken in gill-nets at times. 
Runs in the Tuckahoe River to Tuckahoe. 
Alosa sapidissima (Wilson). 
Shad. 
Mr. Fox says a number have been taken in the Sea Isle City 
pounds early in May of 1906. Mr. Hand says a few are taken in 
the pounds, during the spring, at Cape May. 
