878 



INDEX. 



Page. 



Otsogo Bass 507 



Onlachon 547 



Ovicdo on name of Manatee 116 



Owen, Prof. E., on the power of Sword-fishes 345 



Owl, Sea 254 



Oxylebius pictus 268 



Oyster 711 



Oyster banks, natural and artificial 750-758 



characteristics of 750, 751 



positions of the spat in 751, 752 



Oyster-beds, artificial, establishment of 752, 753 



cause of green color of 735-742 



experiments at 

 Washington and 

 Philadelphia ... 735 



characters of the larval shell 728 



coarser anatomy of 711-715 



colors in different parts of 740-742 



culture, influences of environment on 732, 733 



situations best adapted for 731, 732 



discrimination of sexes of 722, 723 



early stages of development of 726 



experiments on, at Saint Jerome's Creek. 727 



food of 729-735 



observations at Saint Jerome's 



Creek 729-731 



influence of temperature on 743, 744 



impregnation of the eggs of 723-725 



interference of other animal life with. . .748-750 



local variations in form and habits of 742-744 



manner of taking on flesh and reproduc- 

 tion of 755-758 



methods of distinguishing sexes and tak- 

 ing eggs of 722-725 



minute anatomy of 715-719 



mud and fry of 747 



physical and vital agencies destructive to. 746-750 

 and its prey, mutual relation between. ..734,735 



rate of growth of 728,729 



sex, sexual products, and difference of 

 sexual habits in American and Eu- 

 ropean 719-722 



size of the egg of 725, 726 



spat collectors 753, 754 



variations in color of 735,736 



the shell of 743 



yonng, food of 728 



larval character of 727, 728 



Crab 765,766 



development of 745, 746 



as a messmate and purveyor 744-746 



quadruple commensalism of 744, 745 



European experiments upon 740 



fish, name for Tan tog 269 



Toad-fish 251 



Raccoon '52 



Pacific Bnnito 319 



Finback 30 



Lycodids 248 



Tom Cod 223 



Walrus, size of 35 



diHtributiou of 35 



luibits of 35,36 



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 Packard, Dr., on geographical distribution of 



Hooded Seal 69 



Paddle-fish 659 



Pagnphilus groenlandicns 70 



Painted Clam 708 



Palaemon ohionis 819 



Palaemonetes exilipes 819 



vulgaris 818 



Palinurus vulgaris 780 



Paludina 694 



Pandalns borealis 819,820 



Danse 821 



leptoceros 819,820 



Montagni 819, 820 



propinqnns 819,820 



Panganaut Tamwock 201 



Panopeus depressus 772 



Harrisii 772 



Herbstii 772 



Sayi 772 



found in stomach of Sea-robin 256 



Pantosteus platyrhynchus 615 



Panulirns interruptus 780 



Paper-shell 776 



Paralepidse 548 



Paralepis borealis 548 



coruscans 548 



family 548 



Paralichthys dentatus 176, 177, 178, 182 



maculosus 182 



oblongus 181 



qnadrocellatus 181 



stigmatias 182 



Parkhurst.on the Capelin 544,545 



Parnell, on economic value of Cat-fish 250 



on the Mujtton-fish 247 



uses of the Lump-fish 254 



Red Gurnard 256 



Parophrys ischyrus 185 



isolepis 186 



vetulus 185 



Parr 228,468 



Parrot-fish, Blue 274 



Parrot-fishes and some of their allies 274,775 



Pasture school 201 



Paugy 386 



Pauly, Dr., on sex of Eels 649 



Peacock-fish 338 



Peal 468 



Pearch 406 



Pece-Buey 128 



Pecteu irracliana 703, 709 



islandicus 703, 709 



tenuk'ostatus 703,709 



Peelers 776 



V 



Pega de las Agnjas 440 



Pegebuey 116 



Penseus brasilionsis 821 



setiferns 821 



Pennant on abundance of Alewi ves 584 



feeding habits of the Burbot 239 



Peneacolii Rock Salmon 331 



Snappers 398 



