368 REPOET OF NEW JEESEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Family SILURID^. 



Felichthys marinus (Mitchill). 

 Sea Cat Fish. 



Color, when fresh, heautiful steel blue-l)lac]v on baek or upper sur- 

 face, fading' brilliant merenry-white on sides and lower surface. A 

 bluish sheen extending down whole length of sides. Under surface 

 of body shining milky-white. Dorsal and candal dusky, latter darker 

 towards edges. Pectoral dusky above. l>elow and inner edges dull 

 whitish. Ventral and anal dull whitish, latter antero-medianly pale 

 dusky. ]\Iaxillarv' barbel silver-gray, otherwise distally whitish. 

 Lower mental barbels whitish. Edge of upper jaw gi-ay-white. Man- 

 dible whitish. Iris silvery. Adipose fin dusky. Length thirteen 

 inches. Sea Isle City. W. J. Fox. Augnst 20th, 1908. 



Ameiurus catus (Linnaeus). 



White Cat Fish. 



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In Eaccoon Creek, at Bridgeport, Gloucester county, the white cat 

 is reported to appear early in June, when but few are taken. 



Mr. Emlen Martin secured two examples in the Eancocas Creek, at 

 Centerton, Burlington county, in August, on live minnow Ijait. He 

 also says that a number were taken during the spring, but that they 

 are less abundant than the yellow cat. Some attained five or six 

 pounds in weight. 



Said to run in Sluice Creek. tril)utary of Dennis Creek, in Cape 

 May county, to the beaver dam, l)ut not taken al)ove, according to the 

 fishermen. 



A young example was taken in the Delaware River, at Xewbold's 

 Island, Burlington connty, on August l.'ith. 1908. It was a pale livid 

 slaty-gray in color. 



]\Ir. J. B. Yanderveer says two forms of forked tail cat fish occur in 

 the Delaware, and differ chiefly in tlie eye and coloration. The large 

 white cat fish is said to deposit only wben a foot or more in length, 

 w-hile the "bullhead," or the smaller form, is said to deposit when 



