156 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



On May 5th, 1907, large schools of small examples were 

 found in the brackish water at the mouth of Green Creek and 

 also in the fresh water of the latter as it flowed over the beach 

 at ebb-tide. Later on, June 9th they, or others, were also seen. 

 A number were seen about brackish runs, coursing over the 

 beach at intervals, on June 23d. The darker ones were probably 

 spawning males in full breeding-dress. 



Found very abundant along the shallows at Barnegat Pier on 

 July 30th, 1907. The sexes were in high color, and the females 

 evidently gravid. 



About Ocean City Point they were equally abundant with the 

 may fish on August i6th, 1907. They were not so brilliantly 

 colored as early in the season, and occurred in large schools in 

 the tide-pools, though not at all in the surf. 



Very abundant in Pierce's pond at Higbee's Beach in Cape 

 May county, on October 6th, 1907. They collect in great schools 

 alo'ng the shallows in clear water, and are difficult to^ secure ex- 

 cept by seining. Only a few were found in the streams. Rather 

 abundant in the marshes about the boggy roots of the cat tails of 

 Teal's Branch of Pond Creek, where the water is 3 or 4 inches 

 deep. They associate with F. diaphanus, were mostly small in 

 size, dull in color, and ripple the water greatly in their efforts 

 to find concealment when disturbed. October isth, 1907. 



Fundulus diaphanus (Le Sueur). 

 Barred Killifish. 



Taken at Sea Isle City on July 19th, 1906, in small numbers, 

 by Mr. W. J. Fox and myself. 



On October loth, 1906, a number were seen in a cut-off of the 

 tributary of the Delaware at Trenton Junction, in Mercer county. 

 In one place it was very shallow and warm. Here a school of 

 probably a dozen were seen, each of small or moderate size. In 

 this instance the appropriateness or the specific name was very 

 evident, for on approaching the banks dark objects could be seen 

 moving about, which on close examination proved to be only the 

 shadows of the fish themselves. The latter were hardly evident 



