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a8.5§— Deukn-iirdigkeiten einer Reise nach dem rnssiscben Amerika, uacli Mikro- 

 uesieu and durch Kamtschatka. Von F. H. v. Kittlitz.— Eister Band 

 [— Zvveiter Band].— Gotha. Verlag vou Justus Perthes. 1858. [fc<=, vol.i, 

 xvi, 383 pp., 2 pi. ; vol. ii, 2 p. 1., 463 pp., 2 pi.] 



Ig59_33a Congress, | 2d Session. | Senate.^ Ex. Doc. | No. 78. | =^ | Reports \ of j Ex- 

 plorations and Surveys, | to | ascertain the most practicable and economical 

 route for a railroad | from the | Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. | 

 Made under the direction of the Secretary of War, in | 18:3-6, | according to 

 Acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 3i, l-i54, and August 5,1854. | — [ 

 Volume X. I — I Washington : \ Beverley Tucker, Printer. | 1859. 



Explorations and Surveys for a railroad route from the Mississippi River 

 to the PaciQc Ocean. | War Department. | = | Fishes: by Charles Gi- 

 rard, M. D. i — | Washington, D. C. | 1858.* = [xiv, 400 pp., with plates 

 vii-viii, xiii-xiv, xvii, xviii, xxii c, xxvi, xxix, xxx, xxxiv, xxxvii, 

 xl, xli, xlviii, liii, lix, Ixi, Ixiv, Ixv, Ixxi.] 



[N. g. and n. sp. Olipocottus globiceps {58}, Nmitichthys (n. g., 74), AmUodon satunins (!)«), 

 Pelamys lineolata (100), TracJmrus boops (108), Ephippiia zonatus (110), NcocUnus (n •;., lU), 

 NeocUnus Blanchardi (lU), XipUdion (n. r., 119), Xiphklion mucosum (119), Ophidion Tay- 

 lori (138), Paralichthys (n. g., 14G), Tigoma egregia (291), Thalcichthys (d. g., 3io), ThaUichthys 

 Stevcn»ii (3-i:>}, £■ graulis nar.us C33:>), Hnnraulis con.presms (33()), Tetraodon politun (340). 

 mp2)ocavipusingens (ii^), Syngnathus Abboti (31G), Sijngnathus amndinaceus (34C), i?aj« 

 Co(yperi (Tti), Petromyzon lieidus (379), Peiromyzon astori (dtO), Ammocoelcs cibarius (38.3). t 



As this report briugs np our knowledge of the lisb faun:i of the Paoilic coast slope of 

 the United States to the time of its piblicatioii, and lua ks a ; epoch in the ichlbyography 

 of the region in qiicstioD, the species described are htreiubelow cniimtrated. Of thu 

 several columns, (1) the first contains the family name, (2) the sf eond the generic, (3) the 

 third the specific, and (4) the right hand one, the page where the species are described :— 



Order I.— ACANTHOPTERI. 



PercidsB 



Trachinidae 

 Sphyrainidae 

 Heterolepididaj 



Cottidss 



* Ueneral Report upon the Zoology of the several Pacific Raiboad Routes. Part IV. 

 t Dionda grisea (230), "from twenty miles west of Choctaw agency", ia the only other cow .-pucies 

 described. 



