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1907. Although, taken in this dark or deeply stained water it 

 appeared to be more yellowish-olive generally than most 

 examples, 



Enneacanthus gloriosus (Holbrook). 

 Blue Spotted Sun Fish, 



Abundant in the pool near Pensauken, along the Pensauken 

 Creek. Many taken on January 7th, 1906, and all adults. Color, 

 when fresh, brownish-olive, spots obscure and dull, though some- 

 times more or less golden. Anal mostly with a decided dull wine- 

 color tint. No transverse dark bands and opercular blotch size of 

 pupil. 



A small example found in the second cedar-stained stream 

 above Dennisville, in Cape May county, on September 19th, 1906. 



Color in life olivaceous generally, becoming paler or pale 

 brownish below. Bright coppery reflections on opercle below 

 breast and costal region. Opercle with a black blotch size of 

 pupil. Mandible spotted like side of head. Iris warm purplish 

 with reddish and dusky tints. Body spotted with dilute metallic 

 greenish, most conspicuously so on opercle and side of head. On 

 body underlaid transverse bands rather distinct. Dorsal dilute 

 olive-brown, spotted with pale brownish or milky-green. Anal 

 with a tinge of metallic wine-color, spotted with same tint as on 

 body. Caudal like back, with fine spots similar over greater medi- 

 an portion of membranes, like those on dorsal. Pectoral dilute 

 saffron. Ventral transparent, with basal anterior rays dusky their 

 whole length. Length 3^ inches. Very abundant in the debris, 

 grass, sphagnum, etc., along the Pensauken Creek, near Pen- 

 sauken, April 28th, 1907. 



Numerous small examples were evidently this species, which 

 were taken in the Rancocas Creek above New Lisbon on May 

 I2th, 1907. 



Three small pale examples were taken with Umbra in a muddy 

 pool along south branch of Big Timber Creek, near Grenloch, 

 Camden county, on May 19th, 1907. Fins not reddish and spots 

 pale. On October 20th several with ruddy at bases of rayed 

 dorsal and anal fins, and opercular spot nearly as large as pupil, 



