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McDonald, Marshall. Ou the laws of the relation of periodicity in 

 development to temperature. 



(Proc. Biol. Soc, Wash., 1882, i, p. 28. Title only.) 



Eecent experiments in fish-culture. 



(Proc. Biol. Soc, Wash., 1882, i, pp. 32,33 ; also in Trans. Amer. Fish Cult. 

 Assoc, 1882.) 



Observations upon young shad in confinement. 



(Proc. Biol. Soc, Wash., 1882, i, p. 34. Oral communication.) 



Mason, John J. Minute structure of the central nervous system of 

 certain reptiles and batrachians of America. Illustrated by per- 

 manent photo-micrographs, by John J. Mason, M. D. Series A. 

 Author's edition. One hundred. Newport, 1879-1883. 4°, 24 pp., 

 cxiii plates. 



Mather, Fred. The dead fish. 



(Forest and Stream, Apr. 13, 1882, No. 11, xviii, p. 212.) 

 Kefers to tile-fish, Lopholaiilus chamwleonliceps. 



The tile- fish. 



(Forest and Stream, Apr. 27, 1882, No. 13, xviii, p. 250.) 



An illustration of the species furnished by Prof. S. F. Baird is here given. 



(Editor.) Other dead fish. 



(Forest and Stream, May 4, 1882, No. 14, xviil, p. 270.) 

 Eafers to Peristedium miniatum. 



(Editor.) The gasper-gou. 



(Forest and Stream, Aug. 17, 1882, No. 3, XIX, p. 45.) 

 Refers to Haploidonotus grunniens. 



(Editor.) Land-locked salmon in New York. 



(Forest and Stream, Dec. 21, 1882, No. 21, xix, p. 411.) 



Refers to the salmon received from Mr. Thompson through Mr. Blackford. 



(Editor.) The dead fish. 



(Forest and Stream, Mar. 30, 1882, No. 9, xviii, p. 170.) 

 Refers to the tile-fish mortality, but with some confusion as to the fish in 

 question. This error is righted in the same paper, May 4, 1882. 



(Editor.) New fishes in Chesapeake Bay. 



(Forest and Stream, Mar. 30, 1882, No. 9, xviii, p. 172. 

 Mentions the capture of Squalus acanthias and Fhyds regui by the " Fish 

 Hawk." 



Nutting, C. C. On a collection of birds from the hacienda "La 

 Palma," Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Eica. [With critical notes by E. 

 Eidgway.] 



(Proc U. S. Nat. Mus.,1882, v, pp. 382-409.) 



The specimens which form the basis of this paper are mainly in the National 

 Museum collection. The paper was prepared by Messrs. Nutting and Ridg- 

 way, conjointly, the former furnishing the field-notes, aud the latter being 

 responsible for the nomenclature and all critical remarks. The new species 

 are Myiarchus niittingi Ridgw., and Icterus pectoralis espinachi Nutting. 



