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baited with a worm. They will also take small fish. They deposit, 

 unlike their relatives, in the mud. The female is much larger and 

 more chunky than the male. Called gizzard shad, gizzard fish and 

 mud shad by the river fishermen. 



Reported to have been taken in the Delaware at Burlington Island. 



Family ENGRAULIDID^E. 



Anchovia brownii (Gmelin). 

 Broad Banded Anchovy. 



Dr. R. J. Phillips reports anchovies about three inches long which 

 were rather abundant at Corson's Inlet this past summer. They 

 were taken for bait by the fishermen, who knew them as "pink 

 white bait.' 7 



Family ARGENTINID-ffi. 



Osmerus mordax (Mitchill). 



Smelt. 



A number were taken in the Delaware River at Trenton in early 

 April of 1908, according to Mr. Vanderveer. He says they are taken 

 by hook and line fishermen in late spring and early summer, mostly 

 in May and till the middle of June. They run in the little inlets 

 later, but do not leave the tidewater, and are often seen in some 

 numbers about the sewer outlets. They bed in deep water in muddy 

 bottoms, in winter. 



Family ANGUILLID^. 



Anguilla chrisypa Rafinesque. 

 Eel. 



Found in Repaupo Creek, near Repaupo, in the Delaware basin of 

 Gloucester county, April 19th, 1908. 



Reported abundant in Raccoon Creek at Bridgeport, Gloucester 

 county. ()m> seen about thirty inches long on April 19th, 1908. 



