280 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Family ESOCIDA. 
Esox americanus (Gmelin). 
PLATE 93. 
Banded, Pickerel. 
Examples of nearly ro inches in length seen in Mantua Creek 
above Manuta, April 8th, 1906, by Mr. S. H. Hamilton and my- 
self. 
Esox reticulatus (Le Sueur). 
Chain Pickerel. 
Color in life brownish above tinted pale olivaceous and each 
scale sparkling with coppery. Sides brilliant mossy-green with 
Chain Pickerel. Esox reticulatus Le Sueur. (Young.) 
coppery tints, also in some lights overshot with lilac-bluish and 
purplish. Sides with dusky reticulations. A broad deep dusky 
bar from below eye. Upper surface of head speckled brownish. 
Muzzle brownish specked with a little deeper brownish above. 
Iris glassy-coppery with vertical dusky streaks and greenish tints 
in front and behind. Lower fins pale warm brownish with just 
a dull tint of orange, paler basally. Edge of gill-opening dull 
greenish-olive. Length 18 inches apparently. Cedar Swamp 
Creek at. Petersburg, Cape May County. April 16th, 1906. 
T. D. Keim and H. W. Fowler. 
