322 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
sound, and during the past season they have been especially 
abundant. They have been reported from the Tuckahoe River 
as far as tide water. 
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Weak Fish. Cynoscion regalis (Schneider). (Young.) 
Bairdiella chrysura (Lacépéde). 
Silver Perch. White Perch. 
Head. 2% ; depth.3% 3D. XI, 1, 27,1; A.) 9, 1; :scalesiga im 
lateral line to base of caudal and 5 more on latter; tubes 54 in 
lateral line to base of caudal and 5 more on latter; 8 scales in a 
vertical series between origin of spinous dorsal and lateral line; 
10 scales in a vertical series between origin of spinous anal and 
lateral line; snout 4 in head; eye 4%; maxillary 2%4; inter- 
orbital space 41%; fourth dorsal spine 134; fourth dorsal ray 2; 
second anal spine 2'/,,; first anal ray 1°/,); least depth of caudal 
peduncle 234; caudal, measured to tips of median rays, 1%; 
pectoral 134; ventral 114. Body elongate, compressed, back a 
little elevated, greatest depth at origin of spinous fin, and upper 
profile a little more convex than lower. Head compressed, and 
upper profile a little concave from snout to occiput. Snout con- 
vex both in profile and over surface, and its length 11% in its 
breadth. Eye rounded, near first third in head. Mouth oblique, 
and jaws about even. Maxillary oblique, its upper moiety con- 
cealed by preorbital, reaching middle of orbit, and its distal 
expanded extremity 1% in orbit. Teeth small, upper biserial, 
with outer series a little enlarged, curved and rather sparse, and 
mandibular a little large, uniserial. No other teeth. Tongue 
