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This species corresponds in many particulars with M e n i d i a 

 peninsulae of Goode & Bean, but in that species the silvery 

 streak covers only one and one half rows of scales. The soft 

 dorsal in M. peninsulae appears to show considerable vari- 

 ation in the number of rays. 



The fresh-water silversides was first described from the 

 Potomac river, where it has recently been rediscovered in abun- 

 dance, both in fresh and brackish water. It is very common at 

 Water Mill L. I. and in fresh-water tributaries of Great South 

 bay. Several examples were seined in 1898 in salt water at 

 Clam Pond cove. 



In some of the Water Mill specimens the following characters 

 were noted: D. V, 1, 10; A. I, 16-17. Scales 8-40. 



Its associates in fresh water at W T ater Mill were: Fundulus 

 diaphanus, Lucania parva, Eupomotis gib- 

 bo s u s , and Lucius reticulatus. In 1898 it was 

 obtained also in Shinnecock bay, Scallop pond (Peconic bay) and 

 Mecox bay. The localities in Great South bay were: Swan 

 river, south side of Great South bay, Horsefoot creek and Bell- 

 port Lifesaving station. 



180 Menidia notata (Mitchill) 

 Silversides; Friar; Whitebait 



Atherina notata MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 446, pi. IV, fig. 



6, 1815, New York; DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 141, pi. 28, fig. 88, 



1842, New York; STOKER, Hist. Fish. Mass. 87, pi. XVI, fig. 1, 1867. 

 Atherina viridescens MITCHILL, op. cit. 447, 1815, New York. 

 Chirostoma notatum GOODE & BEAN, Bull. Essex Inst XI, 21, 1879, and of 



many other authors. 

 Atherina menidia DE KAY, op. cit. 142, pi. 74, fig. 236, 1842, New York; not 



of LINNAEUS. 

 Atherinichthys menidia and notata GUNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. Ill, 406, 



1861. 



Atherinopsis notatus BAIRD, Ninth Ann. Kept. Smith, Inst. 338, 1855. 

 Menidia notata JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 407, 1883; 



BEAN, Bull. U. S. F. C. VII, 146, 1888; 19th Kept Commrs. Fish. N. Y. 



271, 1890; JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat Mus. 800, 1896; 



EUGENE SMITH, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y. No. 9, 32, 1898; BEAN, 52d Ann. 



Kept. N. Y. State Mus. 102, 1900. 



Body elongate, compressed, its greatest depth contained six 

 and one third times in total length without caudal, and equaling 



