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dusky. Alnal translucent brownish, tinted with pale dusky dots. 

 Ventral translucent brownish-white. Inside of gill-opening whit- 

 ish with a greenish-olivaceous blotch specked with brownish. Iris 

 brownish. Cape May in April, 1904. 



In the inlets and small brackish-water streams on the meadows, 

 this species, together with the next and Menidia menidia notata, 

 run in with the tide. Sometimes other small fish also go with them, 

 though Pundidtis is always the most abundant. It swims in rather 

 large schools, usually a hundred or more, and if one approaches 

 in a boat they make a great commotion in the shallow water along 

 the banks, especially the larger ones, which are apt to become 

 stranded on the mud. In some pools which dry up many perish 

 and their parched bodies may be seen in numbers. Thousands of 

 living examples wxre examined. About Cape May they were 

 abundant, associated with the above mentioned fishes, together 

 with Lucania and Cyprinodon^ though not many were taken in 

 the surf. Many perish in the freezing weather and are then 

 eagerly devoured by gulls. They take the hook readily when 

 baited with an earth-worm. At Stone Harbor they were found 

 abundant with Menidia menidia notata in the surf. At Cape Alay 

 the females, while not so abundant as the males, were frequently 

 seen. The females are marked very differently in color and may 

 be distinguished at once by their several dark longitudinal stripes. 

 Besides the above localities multitudes of examples were exam- 

 ined from Anglesea, Sea Isle City, Ocean City, Beesley's Point, 

 Barnegat and Atlantic City. 



Hardrargyra majalis Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1863, p. 820. 



Fmidulus majalis Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 147. 

 —Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 360. 



Hardrargira flavida Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 

 344. 



Fundulus heteroclitus macrolepidotus (Walbaum). 



Plate 17. 



Minnow. Dog Fish. Killy. Killie. Killy Fish. River Minnow, 

 Mummichog. Blunt Head. 



Head 3^ ; depth 3% ; D. 11, 10; A. i, 9; scales 33 in lateral 

 line to base of caudal and 3 more on latter; 22 scales before 



