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American fauna, must be admitted to be well founded. It was certainly 

 "new to the American fauna", unless it bad been previously ascer- 

 tained to be entitled to be so ranked. Unless Dr. Gambel's attributing 

 this bird to California be admitted, which it cannot be without confir- 

 mation, no one can properly make any such claim. The Berlandier eggs — 

 there were no birds — are unidentified, though probably genuine, but of 

 Mexican origin. It is also included in Dr. Coues's Birds of the North- 

 west, where, however, it is only given as occurring " north to the Eio 

 Grande"— not "north 0/ the Eio Grande". As Dr. Cones gives no 

 authority for regarding it as known to be North American, but stops 

 at the boundary line, the inference is that its presence was conjectural 

 and not positive. — T. JNI. B. 



252. Podilymbus podiceps, (Linn.) 



Occurs in winter. — (Dresser, Ibis, 18GG, 46.) 

 August 1, 1878. 



ON A NEW SERRAN03I> FISH, EPIXEPHEIiUS DKUMMOND-HAYI, FROM 



THE BEKMILDAS AND FE.ORBDA. 



By O. BROWN GOODE and TARLETOIV II. BEAW. 



The National Museuui possesses two specimens of a Serranoid fish, 

 apparently undescribed, for which we propose the name Epineiihelus 

 Dnimmond-Rayi, dedicating the species to Colonel H. M. Drummond 

 Hay, C. M. Z. S., of Leggieden, Perth, Scotland, formerly of the British 

 Army, by whom the species was first discovered at the Bermudas in 1851. 



The species is easily recognized by its numerous, small, star-like, white 

 spots on a dark ground, a type of coloration not found in any other 

 representative of this family hitherto described. 



A collection of water-color drawings, lent to the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion by Colonel Drummond Hay, contains an excellent sketch of one of 

 these fishes, which was taken by him on the outer reef of the Bermudas 

 in 1851. This specimen weighed 52i pounds. The drawing is on the 

 scale of one-fifth. 



The smaller specimen (No. 1G,795) is fifteen and three-quarters inches 

 long. It was received in May, 1876, from Mr. E. G. Blackford, and was 

 for some days on exhibition in the large glass refrigerator in the Gov- 

 ernment Building on the Exhibition Grounds in Philadelphia. It was 

 said to have been brought from Southern Florida by one of the New 

 York market fleet. A cast of this fish was made, as well as an accurate 

 sketch in water-colors. 



A second specimen (No. 21,255) was received early in May, 1878, from 

 Mr. Silas Stearns of Pensacola, Fla. Its length is sixteen and three- 

 quarters inches. The following description has been prepared from t hese 

 two specimens. We have seen other specimens of this species in the 



