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REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Family SILURIDZ. 
Ameiurus natalis prosthistius (Cope). 
PLATE 92. 
Pine Barrens Cat Fish, 
Mr. G. Z. Hartman says that a cat fish with white mental 
barbels occurs in Cedar Swamp Creek, which is very likely this 
species, 
Ameiurus nebulosus (Le Sueur). 
Yellow Cat Fish. 
Color in life above olivaceous, mostly very bright, fading 
golden-yellow-olive on sides to whitish on under surface, and 
in some lights brassy. Lower surface of head tinted coppery. 
Barbels dusky, mentals slightly pale basally. Fins dusky, caudal, 
pectoral and ventral paler at bases. Spines brownish. Most of 
fins with more or less ruddy. Iris brownish-olive with a narrow 
circle of silver adjoining pupil. Length 12 inches. Cedar 
Swamp Creek at Petersburg, Cape May County. April 15th, 
1906. Many examples in the tide-water all more or less green- 
ish-yellow on sides. They are taken in some numbers in gill-nets. 
T. D. Keim and H. W. Fowler. 
Color of an adult in life deep dusky-olive, vertical fins all 
dusky. Abdomen creamy. Pectoral and ventral dusky, and 
barbels blackish. Iris with a narrow circle of silvery. Affluent 
of Crosswicks Creek near Trenton, July 15th, 1906. 
Small examples, most likely this species, were reported from 
the waters about Dennisville in Cape May, County. They are 
taken at night or in the evening as they rarely take the hook 
during the day. The usual bait is an ordinary earth worm. Two 
kinds are said to occur which are styled yellow and. white respect- 
ively, which however I have not determined. 
