CONTENTS OF VOL. III. BEAN, TARLETON H. Description of a New Hake (Phycis Earlii), from South Carolina, and a Check-List of Duplicates of North American Fishes distributed by the Smithsonian 75 280 ENDLICH, FRED. M. List of Species and Varieties of Minerals in the National Museum of the 333 GARMAN, SAMUEL. Synopsis and Descriptions of the American Rhinobatidæ. GILL, THEODORE. On the Identity of the Genus Leurynnis Lockington, with Lycodopsis GOODE, G. BROWN. Descriptions of Seven New Species of Fishes from Deep Soundings on the 516 247 Fishes from the Deep Water on the South Coast of New England obtained by the United States Fish Commission in the Summer of 1880.... The Frigate Mackerel (Auxis Rochei) on the New England Coast HAY, O. P. On a Collection of Fishes from Eastern Mississippi.. 468 HEILPRIN, ANGELO. On Some New Species of Eocene Mollusca from the Southern United 140 JORDAN, DAVID S. Notes on a Collection of Fishes from East Florida, obtained by Dr. J. A. Notes on a Collection of Fishes from Saint John's River, Florida, obtained by Mr. A. H. Curtiss .. 17 23 Note on a Forgotten Paper of Dr. Ayres, and its Bearing on the Nomenclature of the Cyprinoid Fishes of the San Francisco Markets Note on "Sema" and "Dacentrus" Description of a New Species of Caranx (Caranx Beani), from Beaufort, North Carolina JORDAN, DAVID S., and GILBERT, CHARLES H. Notes on a Collection of Fishes from San Diego, California Description of a New Flounder (Xystreurys liolepis), from Santa Catalina Island, Cali Description of a New Ray (Platyrhina triseriata), from the Coast of California Description of a New Species of "Rock Cod" (Sebastichthys serriceps), from the Coast of California On the Occurrence of Cephaloscyllium laticeps (Duméril) Gill on the Coast of California. Description of a New Flounder (Pleuronichthys verticalis), from the Coast of California, with Notes on Other Species....... Description of a New Species of Sebastichthys (Sebastichthys miniatus) from Monterey Bay, California 70 Notes on Sharks from the Coast of California.. On the Generic Relations of Platyrhina exasperata Description of a New Species of "Rock-fish" (Sebastichthys carnatus), from the Coast of California Description of a New Species of Ray (Raia stellulata), from Monterey, California.............. Description of New Species of Xiphister and Apodichthys, from Monterey, California... Description of Two New Species of Sebastichthys (Sebastichthys entomelas and Sebastichthys rhodochloris), from Monterey Bay, California.... Description of a New Agonoid Fish (Brachiopsis xyosternus), from Monterey Bay, California Description of a New Flounder (Hippoglossoides exilis), from the Coast of California. Description of a New Species of Ray (Raia rhina) from the Coast of California.. Description of Two New Species of Fishes (Ascelichthys rhodorus and Scytalina cerdale) from Neah Bay, Washington Territory.. Description of Two New Species of Scopeloid Fishes (Sudis ringens and Myctophum crenulare), from Santa Barbara Channel, California 273 Description of Two New Species of Flounders (Parophrys ischyurus and Hippogtossoides elassodon), from Puget Sound..... 276 Description of Seven New Species of Sebastoid Fishes, from the Coast of California Description of a New Embiotocoid (Abeona aurora), from Monterey, California, with Notes on a Related Species 287 Description of a New Flounder (Platysomatichthys stomias), from the Coast of Califor 304 nia.... Description of a New Embiotocoid Fish (Cymatogaster rosaceus), from the Coast of California.... Description of a New Species of Deep-Water Fish (Icichthys Lockingtoni), from the Coast of California.... Description of a New Embiotocoid Fish (Ditrema atripes), from the Coast of California.. Description of a New Scorpænoid Fish (Sebastichthys maliger), from the Coast of California....... Decription of a New Scorpænoid Fish (Sebastichthys proriger), from Monterey Bay, California................. Description of a New Agonoid (Agonus vulsus), from the Coast of California... Description of a New Species of Hemirhamphus (Hemirhamphus rosa), from the Coast of California Description of a New Species of Notidanoid Shark (Hexanchus corinus), from the Pacific Coast of the United States..... Description of a New Species of Nemichthys (Nemichthys avocetta), from Puget Sound.. Description of a New Species of Paralepis (Paralepis coruscans), from the Straits of Juan de Fuca.. List of the Fishes of the Pacific Coast of the United States, with a Table showing the Distribution of the Species 303 305 320 322 327 330 335 352 409 411 452 On the Generic Relations of Belone exilis Girard.. 459 459 Description of a New Species of Rock-fish (Sebastichthys chrysomelas), from the Coast of California. 465 LAWRENCE, GEORGE N. Description of a New Species of Bird of the Family Turdida, from the Island of Dominica, W. I ... 16 Description of a New Species of Parrot of the Genus Chrysotis, from the Island of Dominica... 254 Description of a New Species of Icterus, from the West Indies.. 351 52 Description of a New Fish from Alaska (Uranidea microstoma) 58 Description of a New Species of Agonidæ (Brachyopsis verrucosus), from the Coast of Description of a New Genus and Some New Species of California Fishes (Icosteus ænigmaticus and Osmerus attenuatus) Description of a New-Chiroid Fish (Myriolepis zonifer) from Monterey Bay, California. RATHBUN, RICHARD. The Littoral Marine Fauna of Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. A Catalogue of the Birds of North America.... Catalogue of Trochilidæ in the Collection of the United States National Museum RYDER, JOHN A. On Camaraphysema, a New Type of Sponge.. List of the North American Species of Myriapods belonging to the Family of the Lysiopetalida, with a Description of a Blind Form from Luray Cave, Virginia.. SMITH, ROSA. On the Occurrence of a Species of Cremnobates at San Diego, California SMITH, S. I. Preliminary Notice of the Crustacea dredged in 64 to 325 fathoms off the South Coast of New England, by the United States Fish Commission, in 1880 SWAN, JAMES G. The Surf Smelt of the Northwest Coast, and the Method of Taking Them by the Quillehute Indians, West Coast of Washington Territory 524 147 413 43 The Eulachon or Candle-fish of the Northwest Coast... 257 Part II.-Mollusca, with Notes on Annelida, Echinodermata, etc., collected by the United 356 Part III.-Catalogue of Mollusca recently added to the Fauna of Southern New England.... 465 46 47 Description of a New Cretaceous Pinna from New Mexico... 47 Note on the Occurrence of Stricklandia Salteri and S. Davidsoni in Georgia 48 140 157 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. Department of the Interior: | U. S. National Museum. |— 27 ——| Proceedings of the United States National Museum. | Vol. IV. | | 1881. || Published under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution. | — | Washington: | Government Printing Office. | 1882. (27) Svo, pp. 616 and alphabetical index; 13 figs., 2 plates. CONTENTS OF VOL. IV. ANONYMOUS. The Comparative action of Dry Heat and Sulphurous Acid upon Putrefactive Page 206 BAIRD, S. F. Notes on certain Aboriginal Shell Mounds on the Coast of New Brunswick and of New England............. 292-297 BEAN, TARLETON H. Descriptions of New Species of Fishes (Uranidea marginata, Potamocottus Bendirei), and of Myctophum crenulare, J. and G Notes on some Fishes from Hudson's Bay.... Directions for Collecting and Preserving Fish 127-129 144-159 235-208 A Preliminary Catalogue of the Fishes of Alaskan and Adjacent Waters.. 239-272 A Partial Bibliography of the Fishes of the Pacific Coast of the United States and of Alaska, for the year 1880. 312-317 Notes on a Collection of Fishes made by Capt. Henry E. Nichols, U. S. N., in British Columbia and Southern Alaska, with Descriptions of New Species and a New Genus (Delolepis).. 463-474 (See also under Goode and Bean.) Remains of the Walrus (?) in Maine.... BENDIRE, CAPT. CHARLES, U. S. A Notes on Salmonida of the Upper Columbia............. 81-87 234, 205 CARLIN, WILLIAM E. Observations of Siredon lichenoides 120, 121 DALL, W. H. On the Genera of Chitons 279-291 On certain Limpets and Chitons from the Deep Waters off the Eastern Coast of the United States....... 400-414 ENDLICH, F. M. An Analysis of Water destructive to Fish in the Gulf of Mexico 124 Mexico, forwarded by the Smithsonian Institution.. 234 GILL, THEODORE. Note on the Latiloid Genera 162-164 GLAZIER, W. C. W., Assistant Surgeon, M. H. S. On the Destruction of Fish by Polluted 126, 127 GOODE, G. BROWN. The Taxonomic Relations and Geographical Distribution of the Members of the Swordfish Family (Xiphiida) 415-433 GOODE, G. BROWN, and TARLETON H. BEAN. Description of a New Species of Fish (A pogon 160, 161 379-353 On the Determination of Feldspar in Thin Sections of Rocks. INGERSOLL, ERNEST. On the Fish Mortality in the Gulf of Mexico..... 129-134 134-136 74-80 JAPANESE LEGATION. Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese Cotton Fiber presented to the United States National Museum by the Government of Japan, together with the Amount of the Annual Crop of Japan, and the Price of Cotton 449-453 JOHNSON, S. H. Notes on the Mortality among Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico 205 JORDAN, DAVID S., and PIERRE L. JOUY. Check-list of Duplicates of Fishes from the Pacific 1-18 JORDAN, DAVID S., and CHARLES H. GILBERT. Notes on the Fishes of the Pacific Coast of the Description of Sebastichthys mystinus 29-70 70-72 Page. JORDAN, DAVID S., and CHARLES H. GILBERT Description of a New Species of Ptychochilus (Ptychochilus Harfordi), from Sacramento River........ 72,73 Notes on Raia inornata 73,74 Notes on a Collection of Fishes, made by Lieut. Henry E. Nichols, U. S. N., on the West Coast of Mexico, with Descriptions of New Species..... List of Fishes collected by Lieut, Henry E. Nichols, U. S. N., in the Gulf of California, and on the West Coast of Lower California, with Descriptions of Four New Species Descriptions of Thirty-Three New Species of Fishes from Mazatlan, Mexico. Description of a New Species of Pomadasys from Mazatlan, with a Key to the Species known to Inhabit the Pacific Coasts of Tropical America....... 225-233 273-279 338-365 383-388 454 Description of a New Species of Xenichthys (Xenichthys xenurus), from the West Coast of Central America.... Description of Five New Species of Fishes from Mazatlan, Mexico 458-463 19 LAWRENCE, GEORGE N. Description of a New sub-Species of Loxigilla, from the Island of 204, 205 141-144 LOCKINGTON, W. N. Description of a New Genus and Species of Cottida MCKAY, CHARLES L. A Review of the Genera and Species of the Family Centrarchidæ, with 161, 162 87-93 MOORE, M. A. Fish Mortality in the Gulf of Mexico 125, 126 PIRZ, ANTHONY. Methods of Making and Preserving Plaster Casts. 272, 273 PLATEAU, M. FELIX. The Rapid Preparation of Large Myological Specimens..... 388-391 121-123 RATHBUN, RICHARD. List of Marine Invertebrates, mainly from the New England Coast, distributed by the United States National Museum. (Series II.) 298-303 List of Marine Invertebrates from the New England Coast, Distributed by the United States National Museum. (Series III.).. 304-307 RAU, CHARLES List of Anthropological Publications (of Charles Rau) 455-458 RIDGWAY, ROBERT. On a Duck new to the North American Fauna 22-24 On Amazilia yucatanensis (Cabot), and A. cerviniventris, Gould. 25, 26 93-119 List of Species of Middle and South American Birds not Contained in the United States National Museum.. 165-203 List of Special Desiderata among North American Birds 207-223 Catalogue of Old World Birds in the United States National Museum 317-333 Notes on Some Costa Rican Birds..... 333-337 Description of a New Flycatcher and a Supposed New Petrel, from the Sandwich Islands 337, 338 366-371 Descriptions of Two New Thrushes from the United States 374-379 On Two Recent Additions to the North American Bird Fauna, by L. Belding. 414, 415 RYDER, JOHN A. On Semper's Method of Making Dry Preparations..... 224, 225 392-400 19-21 140, 141 391, 392 371-374 161 TRUE, FREDERICK W. On the North American Land Tortoises of the Genus Xerobates....... 434-449 ..... 474, 475 308-311 136-139 N M 1881-10 No. 6. Classification and arrangement of the materia medica collections. By James M. Flint, surgeon, United States Navy....... ..Pages.. 2 No. 7. A classification of the forms in which drugs and medicines appear and are administered. By James M. Flint, surgeon, United States Navy....... ...Pages.. No. 8. Memoranda for collectors of drugs for the materia medica section of the National Museum. By James M. Flint, surgeon, United States Navy................................ No. 9. Circular in reference to the building-stone collection.. No. 10. Two letters on the work of the National Museum. By Barnet Phillips... .Pages.. 9 ..Pages.. 9 ...Pages.. 10 ..Pages.. .Pages.. 2 09 .Pages.. 4 .Pages.. 3 No. 18. List of publications of the United States National Museum.. |