Vol. XVI, pp. 49-52 March 19, 1903 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Three fishes new to the fauna of New Mexico. 



When in the Pecos Valley last August, I obtained three species of 

 small fishes, which have been very kindly identified by Dr. B. W. Ever- 

 mann, and appear to be new to the fauna of our Territory. 



Etheostoma l&pidum (Baird and Girard). Dimmit Lake, near Roswell. 

 The lake is small but very deep, at the base of the gypsum bluffs which 

 skirt the Rio Pecos. 



Notropis macrostomus Girard, and 



Tetragonopterus argentatus Baird and Girard, both from North Spring 

 River, just north of Roswell. — T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Note on Phoca nigra Pallas. 



In a recent paper on ' The Hair Seals (Family Phocidm) of the North 

 Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea' (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XVI, 1902, 

 pp. 459-499), I suggested (I. c, p. 483, foot note) that as Pallas's name 

 Phoca nigra (1811), based on a young fur seal from the Kurile Islands, 

 has priority over Callorhinus curilensis Jordan and Clark (1899), the Kurile 

 Islands species would have to stand as Callotaria nigra (Pallas). I over- 

 looked the fact, however, that Phoca nigra Pallas is preoccupied by 

 Phoca gramlandica var. nigra Kerr (1792). Consequently the Kurile Fur 

 Seal will stand as Callotaria curilensis (Jordan and Clark). — J. A. Allen. 

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