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Family PCECILIID^. 



Fundulus majalis (Walbaum). 

 May Fish. 



Dr. E. J. Phillips says it is common at Corson's Inlet, and the 

 female is distinguished as of that sex by some fishermen. 



Locally abundant in the surf at Ocean City on September 10th, 

 ]9()8. The numerous adult females were usually more abundant than 

 tlie males. Some of the latter were in high coloration, head blackish 

 fmd anal long, etc. 



Fundulus heteroclitus macrolepidotus (Walbaum). 

 Mummichog. 



Abundant in Crooked Creek, Cape May county, on January oth, 

 1908. 



Abundant in Great Sound Creek, Cape >[ay county, on January 

 5th, 1908. 



At Xewbold's Island, in the Delaware River, Burlington county, it 

 was quite abundant along the shallows of the shore on August 13th, 

 1908, though less so than Fundulus diaphanus. Xo large ones were 

 found, and tliough l^oth sexes were distinct in their coloration, they 

 were of the ornatus type. The males thus lacked the extreme dark 

 color with sulphur-yellow variegations, and the females were a little 

 speckled. 



Dr. Phillips says the "bullhead" is common at Corson's Inlet. 



Small or young very alumdant in the lower tidal of the Assiscunk 

 Creek, near Burlington, on September 15th, 1908. They were usu- 

 ally associated with the next. 



Verv abundant on Burlington Island. 



