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were seen in the rivers. 77 Some of these are still preserved in the 
National Museum. 
We did not find the species in the bay, but I saw scales of a large 
individual on one of the menhaden steamers. 
42. Stenotomus chrysops (Linnaeus). Sea porgy. 
Pagrus argyrops Baird, Ninth Ann. Kep. Smith. Inst., 1855, 333. 
Young individuals were taken sparingly at Ocean City, August 1. 
Small ones are frequently caught in seines alongshore and on hooks in 
the bay. 
This is called “sea porgy 77 to distinguish it from the “spot, 77 which 
is sometimes styled “ porgy. 77 
43. Arcliosargus probatocephalus (Walbaum). Sheepshead. (Pi III, fig. 10.) 
At Somers Point, August 8, two specimens were taken on hand-lines 
with fiddler-crab bait. The larger weighed 8 pofinds and the smaller 
5. The sheepshead is not common. Fishermen say that small speci- 
mens are not seen. The fishing places are about wrecks, wharf piles, 
and under steep banks in the thoroughfares. 
Sixteen specimens, from 1 inch to about inches, were seined at 
Beesley 7 s Point, August 10 and 11. 
Seven black bars on sides, and an other faint, narrow one, atcaudal 
base ; interspaces yellowish green. 
August 15, two additional specimens were caught on hand-lines. 
An example 2.1 inches long and four smaller were taken at Beesley 7 s 
Point, August 23. Several more were seined September 2 at the same 
place. 
Seven more were caught at Beesley 7 s Point, September 9, the largest 
of these is 2.1 inches long. 
The young are found only at Beesley 7 s Point, and in only one limited 
shore stretch there. It is well supplied with algrn, and there are con- 
venient hiding places under the sod banks. 
44. Lagodon rhomboides (Linnaeus). 
Young individuals, ranging from 3J to 4 inches in length, were taken 
at Beesley 7 s Point, August 11. The species is not uncommon. 
This fish is unknown to the fishermen. 
Specimens were taken at Beesley 7 s Point, September 9. The largest 
are about 5 inches long. 
45. Orthopristis chrysopterus (LinnsBus). (PI. III., fig.- 11). 
At Beesley 7 s Point, X. J., August 10, 1887, many young individuals 
were taken in the seine. D. XII, 16; A. Ill, 13; scales, 75. 
A dark stripe beginning on nape and dividing sends one branch along 
the back on each side not far from dorsal outline. A dark stripe from 
eye to root of caudal. Cheeks and opercles with several narrow orange 
stripes. A narrow orange stripe between the two dark body stripes 
and another below the lower dark stripe. Below the second orange 
stripe the sides are marked with numerous orange spots, not continu- 
