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t^ouili l.;iv. September 1. In 1901, th^ species was not observed 

 at all <lininy a season extending from the middle of July to the 

 middle of October. 



The breeding season must continue into early summer as 

 many young fish, from 1 inch to 2^ inches long, were obtained in 

 (ii-.at Egg Harbor bay. X. J. early in August. 



The young (i' ilic silver perch are found every summer in 

 Cravrseud bay. and adults are to be seen occasionally. On Sep- 

 u-mbcr S. 1890. Mr De Nyse took an example 1^ inches long with 

 a shrimit iid in eelgrass back of the flats at extreme low tide. 

 Pools containing 2 feet of water are common here, and many 

 species of fish become imprisoned in them. In August Mr W. I. 

 De Nyse lias captured a half dozen adult Hippocampus 

 in sucli localities. On October 5, 1896, and agiiiu in the fall -d 

 ISKT, tiic sih'er perch was obtained in the bay. 



TIk' species seldom exceeds 10 inches in length, but is regarded 

 as ail excellent pnnfish. and is secured in enormous numbers. 



Genus sciaeaops Gill 



This genus is close to Ophioscion. from which it differs 

 ill the loss of its preopercular armatui'e with age, the serrate 

 edge of the bone becoming entire. The caudal fin is trtincate 

 <r concave, the soft dorsal scaleless; the slits and pores of the 

 iijtpcr jaw are well developed and the single species reaches a 

 very large size. The group is not well separated from O p h i o s- 

 c i o n on the one hand, or from S c i a e n a on the other, but 

 its retention seems to be convenient. 



liSL' Sciaenops ocellatus (Linnaeus) 

 Red Drum ; Channel Bass 



I'lrrii i,r,iiahi Linnaeus, Sj'st Nat. eil. XII, 483, 17G6, South Carolina. 

 Sriitnnt iiiiborbis MiTCHiLT., Traus. Lit. & riiil. See. N. Y. I, 41t, 1815, 



.New York. 

 corriiiii onlltita CtTviKii A: N'alknciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. V, 134, pi. 108, 



\X\{); I)E Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 75, pi. 21, fig. 61, 1842, New York; 



Hoi.iiiiOOK, lehth. S. C. ed. 1, 149, pi. 21, fig. 2, 1856. 

 h.iuiiiiK orcllatiifi iiKARD, IT. s. Mex. Bd. Surv. 14, pi. 8, figs. 1-4, 1859. 

 xiarmi ovdUita (Ji;.nthkr, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. II. 289, 1860. America; 



JoRDAPT & Gilbert, Bull. Ki. U. S. Nat. Miis. 571, 18S3. 



