THE FISHES OF XEW JERSEY. 193 



Abundant in the lower Delaware and along the coast. In tide- 

 water they ascend the Delaware as far as Trenton at least. Age, 

 sex and color play a great part in the variation of this little fish. 

 About the mud flats they are frequently met with in large schools, 

 often associated with Fundulus diaphanus, and sometimes with 

 other small fishes, as Bnneacanthus gloriosits, Angidlla chrisypa^ 

 Umbra pygmcua, Brama crysoleucas, young Bupomotis, Lepomis, 

 M or one, Pomolohus and Brimyzon. * At Cape May they are re- 

 ported to be preyed on by most ducks, such as the red-breasted 

 and common mergansers, great and little blue herons, green heron, 

 bittern and other birds. They were not found in the fresh 

 waters of Lily Lake at Cape ]\Iay Point. They are more abun- 

 dant than the preceding, and at times vast schools are found 

 almost everywhere in meadow streams or pools. They run 

 in with the tide, and if one should happen to pole his way up 

 a small inlet the noise made by the efforts of these schools to 

 swim by on the shallow water in order to escape would be found 

 to be quite startling if not noticed before. In these cases I have 

 never seen them altogether stranded, as they always finally wrig- 

 gle back into the water. Sometimes a few silversides {Menidia 

 menidia notata) were found with them. Only very small min- 

 nows were found back on the mainland, though everywhere abun- 

 dant. 



Fimdulus heteroclitus Ahhott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 820. — Bean, 

 Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 148.— Moore, Bull. U. S. F. 

 Com., VII, 1887, p. 148.— Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, 

 p. 360. 



Fundiihis zebra Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 342. 



Hydrargyra flavida Abbott, Am. Nat., IV, 1870, p. 115. 



Pundidus nigrofasciatiis Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, p. 478. 



Fundulus diaphanus (Le Sueur). 



Minnow. Killy. Killie Fish. Dog Fish. Blunt Head. 

 Barred ^Minnow. 



Head 3^^ ; depth 4% ; D. iv, 11 ; A. 11, 11 ; scales 47 in lateral 

 line to base of caudal and 4 more in latter ; 29 scales before dorsal ; 

 13 MU 



