206: [REPORT OF (NEW JERSEY is TATESMUSE UM. 
Clupanodon oglinum (Le Sueur). 
Thread Herring. 
Mr. Fox secured 2 examples during the past season. 
Clupanodon oglinum Fowler, Science, XXIV, 1906, November 
gth, p. 596. 
Thread Herring. Clupanodon oglinum (Le Sueur). 
Brevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe). 
Mossbunker. 
Color when fresh with back generally, till level with eye, glau- 
cous-blue, with slight shades of dusky and metallic tints. Side 
and lower surface inclining to whitish, and everywhere entire 
body more or less overshot with bright silvery-white. Upper 
surface of head brownish-glaucous or olivaceous, with golden, 
coppery, bronzed, brassy and other metallic tints, also these 
extending well over sides. Snout and front jaws translucent 
brownish, and adipose eyelid same. Iris silvery. Branchiostegal 
region whitish. Inside of gill-opening shaded dark with dusky 
dots. A broad median dorsal streak shaded olivaceous. Opercle 
with dusky blotch in front. A blackish shoulder blotch a little 
