198 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Fam. LARID^. 



58. Sterna maxima, Bodd. 

 " Sterna regia. 



" I am very sure that the Tern seen here is of this species, though I 

 have not yet obtained it." 



Fam. PODICIPITID^. 



59. "Pcdiceps? 



"A species of 'diver' is often spoken of as occurring during the 

 autumn months. I have not obtained it." 



"A few ducks and one species of teal visit this island, but do not 

 remain. There are few ponds or bodies of water, no salt-water lagoons 

 and no marshes of any extent, so that all kiuds of water fowl soon 

 leave for better feeding grounds." 



New York, July 22, 1878. 



DESCRIPTION OF A IVEU^ SPAROID FISS, SAROUS HOI^BROOKII, 

 FROin SAVANNAH BANK. 



By TABI.ETO]\' BI. BEAi^. 



A preliminary description of this species was published in Forest and 

 Stream. June 13, 1878. Mr. G. Brown Goode, Assistant Curator of the 

 United States National Museum, found it on the 29tli of March, 1878, in 

 the market of Charleston, S. C, where it is known as the "Bream". 

 Prof. D. S. Jordan has recently collected the species at Beaufort, N. C. 



The description is drawn from the six specimens (United States Na- 

 tional Museum Catalogue, Fishes, No. 20,979) sent by Mr. Goode from 

 Charleston. These specimens range from 256 to 300 millimetres (10^^ 

 to llyf inches) in length to end of middle caudal rays. This measure- 

 ment is the basis of comparison for all the rest. 



The species is dedicated to John Edwards Holbrook, M. D., author of 

 the "Ichthyology of South Carolina", &c., &c. 



Sargus Holbrookii, Bean, sp. nov. 



Body ovate, resembling Sargus vulgaris, Geofifr., in shape, rather than 

 S. caudimacula., Poey, compressed, a very slight protuberance above the 

 upper anterior margin of the orbit, and a very marked one in the supra- 

 occipital region. Height of body at ventrals, measured from origin of 

 ventral to origin of spinous dorsal, is contained slightly less than 2J 

 times in length of body, and usually equals the distance of the dorsal 

 from the end of upper jaw. Least height of tail is about equal to length 

 of middle caudal rays, slightly exceeds the length of upper jaw, and is 

 contained from 10 to lOJ times in total length. 



