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Enneacanthus gloriosus (Holbrook). 

 Blue Spotted Sun Fish. 



In a pool formed at the exhaust of the Pensauken water works sev- 

 eral examples were found March 21st, 1908. No other fishes were 

 seen. The pool is about twenty by forty feet in size, with about three 

 or four feet depth, of warm water, and of such high temperature that 

 the aquatic vegetation all along the banks was forced well beyond the 

 other plants outside the area of the pool. Though suffering somewhat 

 from the frosts, the forced plants were still growing. Constant clouds 

 of vapor were steaming from the surface of the water, though the fish 

 were of the usual activity when captured, and displayed the usual 

 characteristics when found in midwinter. They all seemed to lurk in 

 the vegetation along the banks. 



An example nearly full grown, though not especially brilliant, was 

 taken in Repaupo Creek, near Repaupo. Delaware basin, in Gloucester 

 county, on April 19th, 1908. 



Found in grassy pools on Burlington Island in June of 1902. 



Lepomis auritus (Linnaeus). 

 Long Eared Sun Fish. 



Mr. J. B. Vanderveer says the river sun fish was more abundant 

 about Trenton formerly, were taken with lines, and reached as much 

 as three-quarters of a pound in weight. 



Young abundant in the Delaware about Burlington Island. 



Eupomotis gibbosus (Linnaeus). 

 Common Sun Fish. 



Said to be abundant in Raccoon Creek, at Bridgeport, Gloucester 

 county. 



Young taken in the grass of the lake above beaver dam of Sluice 

 Creek, tributary to Dennis Creek, in Cape May county, May 10th, 

 1908. 



