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its first summer until it returns as an adult fish intent upon the propagation of its 
kind. Dr. Bean writes : 
Young shad measuring 5 to 7 inches in length have been seen in the Potomac in company with 
the adults in spring. Mr. Worth caught many specimens several years ago at Fort Washington. We 
have occasionally found shad measuring 5 or 6 inches in length in the fall of the year, before the 
time for their descent to the sea. Whether or not they are the young of the year is unknown to me. 
According to -Dr. G. Brown Goode, at the time the young fish are leaving the 
waters in which they were hatched they are said to he from 2 to 3 inches long. 
If this be true, as my observations upon the herring lead me to believe, the specimens 
under discussion are from eggs hatched during the spring of the preceding year, per- 
haps some time in April, and are consequently fifteen or sixteen months old. 
They have increased but 3 to 4 inches in length during eight or ten months. It 
would be interesting to determine whether shad of this size regularly occur in the 
almost landlocked waters of the shallow bays along the coast of southern New Jersey. 
It seems improbable that they so occur in numbers. This question might, perhaps, 
prove of economic importance. 
9. Clupea pseudoharengus Wilson. “Herring.” 
Young specimens, 5 inches long, frequently taken in Ludlam Bay during August. 
Captured in pound net. An active species abundant in ditches communicating with 
Ludlam Bay. Occasionally infested with Lerneonema radiata. 
10. Clupea aestivalis Mitchill. Glut Herring. 
Several specimens, 5 to 6 inches long, taken during the middle and latter part of 
August. 
11. Opisthonema oglinum (Le Sueur). Thread Herring. 
Several specimens were taken in pound net. 
12. Brevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe). Menhaden. 
The most abundant fish in the bay throughout July and August. Adults caught 
in great numbers in pound net. Young ones, from 3 to 4 inches long, very plentiful 
during August. Adults almost without exception infested with Lerneonema radiata , 
some bearing ten or twelve of these conspicuous parasites. None of the young were 
parasitized. 
13. Stolephorus browni (Gmelin). Anchovy. 
Found in the tide pools along the beach. Several specimens, 5 to 6 inches long, 
were taken in pound net about August 20. 
14. Stolephorus mitchilli (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 
Seen in the pools along the beach with Menidia notata. Large numbers driven 
ashore at Avalon, August 6, by bluefish. 
15. Synodus foetens (Linnaeus), Lizard-fish; “Frostfish.” 
A specimen about 8 inches long was taken in the pound net August 25. Said by 
fishermen to be common in the fall during the cool weather, whence its local name. 
It is said that at that season it takes the bait intended for nobler game, and is thus a 
source of annoyance to fishermen. 
16. Cyprinodon variegatus Lac^pede. 
Yery abundant in the ditches and about the shores of Ludlam Bay and the com- 
municating thoroughfares. Found associated with Fundulus lieteroclitus , F. majalis , 
and Menidia notata. 
