FRESH-WATER FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. 117 
by the writer in describing this species in 1861. Mr. Cope 
has stated, in his Monograph on the Cyprinide of Penu- 
sylvania (Transactions American Philosophical Society), that 
the coloration given by the writer, was that of the male 
in spring. The description he alludes to was drawn up in 
the summer. Mr. Cope is correct as to the coloration being 
that of the breeding season, but the tints do not grow less 
distinct after spawning, and the female is very nearly, if 
not quite, as highly colored during February, March and 
April. Later, the female becomes silvery, but the male, in 
clear waters, retains his high coloring. In muddy, sluggish 
waters, the bright, rosy hue becomes a reddish brown; the 
blue tints become leaden. Of the smaller specimens none 
exhibited the peculiar cloudy markings of the Cyprinus 
atromaculatus Mitchell. The largest specimen, a female, 
measured fourteen inches in length, and exceeded all the 
others in the magnificence of its coloring. The examination 
of nearly three hundred specimens kat clearly that 
the beauty of this species was in proportion to the size, and 
that the sex could not be determined by the color of the 
specimen. 
Among this enormous quantity of specimens not a single 
Semotilus corporalis was found. 
NoTE.— Early in the month of February of this year, the writer received a imu 
of sim fish” or “smelt,” from the Raritan River. N. J. Among these fish (Osmeru 
mordax) Was a mp. peers of | a oyprinoid, wien was new to the waters of vnd 
Jersey, and The specimen was — 
to Professor E. D. Cope, and has since been Spese by him in MSS., s Hy 
osmerinus Cope. The paper containing the description will be praon soon in a 
* Transactions of the American sante Society of Philadelphia." 
This is the only species of this genus found in the state, aud is, we believe, nd 
In our report of the esee ted. New Jersey, si — boe n pene es end 
" AL. as found in the s 
rolepidotus whic h is very shade, in the Dolaware > River, about per south of bhia. 
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