THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. 143 



swift running. In late spring the males assume a very different 

 appearance. Their fin-rays become enlarged or expanded and are 

 heavily charged with the most brilliant satiny-white pigment, 

 which has earned for the fish the name of silver fin. At this 

 season of the year they are of the deepest and brightest shades. 

 The top of the head is also covered with small horny excrescences 

 which appear to soon fall off later, or during the summer. The 

 female is not so deeply colored, though it too sometimes has 

 a few horny excrescences. They frequent the shallows in clear 

 rapids, swift ripples, and here one may see fifty or more all con- 

 gregated in a restless and constantly surging bunch, each one 

 apparently trying to make as much commotion in as small a space 

 as possible. They are not so wary at this time and may easily 

 be scooped out with a small dip-net. I have also seen them in the 

 smallest brooks or rills, at most all seasons of the year. Often in 

 midwinter they may frequently be seen disporting themselves 

 with other numerous finny inhabitants of our brooks. At this 

 season they are very plain-colored, and while very pretty form a 

 great contrast to their vernal dress. When small they are also 

 very difficult to distinguish from the red fin. The largest I 

 have seen never exceeded 4 inches. They will take a worm on a 

 small hook and are frequently the object of sport to the small boy. 



Hypsilepis amalostamis Abbott, Am. Nat., IV, 1870, p. 103. 



Hybopsis analostamis Abbott, Am. Nat., VIII, 1874, p. 330. 



Cliola analostana Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, p. 478. 



Hypsilepis kentuckiensis Cope, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc. Phila.. 

 XIII, 1869, p. 371, PL 2, fig. 3.— Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868 

 (1869), p. 824. — Abbott, Am. Nat. IV, 1870, p. 100. 



Notropis cornutus (Mitchill). 



Red Fin. Shiner. Minny. 



Head 3% ; depth 3; D. 11, 7, i; A. iii, 8, i; scales 40 in lat- 

 eral line to base of caudal, and 3 more on latter ; 9 scales obliquely 

 down from origin of dorsal to lateral line; 6 scales between origin 

 of anal and lateral line in a vertical series; 22 scales before dor- 

 sal; snout y/s in head; eye 3^; maxillary 3V10 5 interorbital 



