BOSTON 



JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



Vol. IV. APRIL, 1843. No. 3. 



Art. XXIII. — ENU:\IERATI0N OF THE FISHES OF BROOKHAVEN, 

 LOx\G ISLAND, WITH REMARKS UPON THE SPECIES OBSERVED. 

 By Willia3i O. Ayres, of East Hartford, Connecticut. 



(Continued from page 264.) 

 MuGIL LINEATUS. Mitch. 



Plate XII. Fig. 1. 



A DESCRIPTION of this spccies with a figure, was prepared 

 for insertion in its regular order in the last number of this 

 journal. The engraving of the figure, however, could not be 

 completed in season, and the whole was omitted, with the 

 intention that it should appear in the present number. The 

 recent publication of Dr. Dekay's Report on the Fishes of 

 New York, in which this species is described and figured, 

 renders any further account unnecessary, and my description 

 is accordingly suppressed. As the figure, however, was en- 

 graved on the same plate with that of other species, it must 

 appear with them. This species appears to be somewhat 

 uncommon in Brookhaven ; I have seen them in but a few 

 instances, and then not in very great numbers. They are 

 seldom larger than the one figured. 



Lebias ellipsoides. Le Sueur. 



Since the publication of the last number of the Journal 1 

 have had the opportunity of examining numerous living spe- 



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