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pectoral, all of ventrals and anal, which turn more or less bright 
salmon-pink when fresh in alcohol, and back and upper surface 
turn leaden. 
Color in life olivaceous-dusky above, silvery-white on sides 
and lower surface, and becoming ochraceous on abdomen. Ver- 
tical bars on sides dusky-olive like back, with those intervening 
narrow and paler. Dorsal translucent brownish with dusky spot 
obscurely at first on first rays basally, and same of median rays. 
Tips of posterior rays black. Caudal dilute olivaceous-brown 
with transverse black bar at base. Pectoral, ventral and anal 
dull chrome-orange, and ventral brightest. Side of head brown- 
ish-silvery, also most of body. Iris silvery-brown. Adult. ‘Tide- 
marsh near Dennisville in Cape May County. September, 1906. 
H. W. Hand, T. D. Keim and H. W. Fowler. Found associated 
with Fundulus heteroclitus macrolepidotus and F. diaphanus. 
Family MASTACCEMBELID&. 
Tylosurus marinus (Walbaum). 
Gar. Sword Fish. 
Small examples seen in a cut-off back of Sea Isle City, July 
21st, 1906, by Mr. Fox and myself may have been this species. 
Mr. Fox reported a large school “in parade’ found moving 
across Corson’s Inlet late in the summer, with the largest indi- 
viduals ranging up to about 10 inches which were most likely this 
species. Mr. McCadden reports a “sword fish,” evidently this 
species from Ocean City during the past August. 
Tylosurus raphidoma (Ranzani). 
Big Gar. 
Head 234; depth, 1714; wom) 22, 11 jvAy a 205 aes ee 
V.1, 5, 1; scales about 350 in a lateral count from opposite gill- 
opening to base of caudal, and about 11 more out on latter; 275 
