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tending down to middle of side pale olivaceous. Along side of 

 head and just below pectoral a tinge of azure. Head above, in- 

 cluding upper jaw and maxillary distally, the line of demarcation 

 crossing broadly posteriorly, brownish. Tips of jaws dusky. 

 Dorsal, anal and caudal translucent or pale olivaceous, rays 

 darker. Lower margin of caudal at rudimentary rays tinted yel- 

 lowish-green. Pectoral tinted with olivaceous and small dots, 

 and lower radii whitish. Ventral and anal tinted with bright 

 gamboge. Lower surface of body opaque milky or chalky-white. 

 Iris pearly brownish-white. Axil of pectoral white, flap inside 

 above dusky olive. Inside of gill-opening whitish sprinkled with 

 dusky. Spinous dorsal dusky-olive. These colors from a half- 

 grown example taken at Barnegat Pier July i8th, 1905. 



A common and highly valued food-fish of rich delicate flesh. 

 It is abundant on the sandy-shores. My examples from Cape 

 May, Holly Beach, Wild Wood, Anglesea, Grassy Sound, Stone 

 Harbor, Sea Isle City, Beach Haven, Ocean City, and Beesley's 

 Point. 



Otolithus regalis Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 



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Cynoscion regalis Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 810. — Verrill, 

 Am. Nat., V., 1871, p. 398.— Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 

 1892, p. 363.— -Smith, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 376. 



Cynoscion regale Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 140, 

 PI. 2, fig. 6. 



Cynoscion nebulosus (Cuvier). 

 Spotted Weak Fish. 



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Southern Weak Fish. Cynoscion nebulosus (Cuvier), 



