136 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



The figure reproduced in Rep. N, J. State Mus., 1906, p. 86. 

 is that of an adult, or probably old male, example of the com- 

 mon sturgeon (Acipenser sturio). 



Dr. Kendall writes, "we had a number of this species from the 

 Delaware (Gloucester, N. J.) under the name of 'mamoose.' 

 Those specimens are in the U. S. Nat, Mus., I think. They were 

 not recognized by the fishermen, and even some ichthyologists 

 were puzzled, but they were undoubtedly brevirostrimi." 



Family CLUPEID^. 



Pomolobus mediocris (Mitchill). 



Hickory Shad. 



Reported to occur in the tide-water of Cedar Swamp Creek 

 near Petersburg. They are also reported to ascend the Tucka- 

 hoe River with the alewife. Mr. H. Walker Hand says it has 

 been taken at Higbee's Beach on the bay shore of Cape May 

 county. 



Reported common in Great Egg Harbor Bay, according to the 

 fishermen at Beesley's Point, Somers Point, and Ocean City, who 

 know it as "hickory shad." 



Pomolobus pseudoharengus (Wilson). 

 Alewife. 



According to Mr. Hand it occurs all along the bay shore from 

 Cape May Point to Dennis Creek in the pounds. They also 

 occur in the Tuckahoe and Middle Rivers. They are the first 

 fish to appear in the spring, coming with the rock, summer 

 flounders and shad. Very abundant in the pounds about Green 

 Creek on May 5th, 1907, and many were found gilled. About 

 the fields we found them abundantly strewn with other fish as 

 fertilizers. None were over 12 inches long. When remaining 

 in the water any length of time after death their backs become 

 more or less dull slaty-blackish. 



