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REPORT ON ZOOLOGY. 



The Committee beg to submit the following notes. Dr. Cox has 

 prepared a list of the Batrachians of the province, which will be found 

 in another part of this bulletin. Several inquiries have been made for 

 a list of our insects, and the Committee hope to have a list of our 

 Butterflies and Hawk Moths prepared in time for publication in the 

 next bulletin. Dr. Cox has kindly furnished the notes on fishes for 

 this report. 



Additions to the List of New Brunswick Fishes. 



(For Catalogue, see Bulletin XIII, 1896.) 



Siphostoma fuSClim (Storer). Jordan and Gilbert. Common Pipe-fish. 

 A single specimen taken in a smelt bag-net in Miramichi Bay, February, 

 1898, and donated to the museum of the Mir. Nat. Hist. Association. 



Atberina llOtata, Mitchell. Silverside. 



Abundant around the shores and islands of Mir. Bay in mid-summer. 



Aspidophoroides monopterygius (Block). Storer. Alligator -fish. 

 One found among smelts in a net in Mir. 'Bay, Feb., 1S98, and donated to 

 museum of Mir. Nat. Hist. Association. 



Phycis tenuis, Mitchell. White Hake. 



Not uncommon in Mir. Bay in early part of winter. 



Pleuronectes glaber, Storer. Smooth Flounder. 



Miramichi Bay and Bay des Chaleurs, but not abundant. 



Birds. 



The numbers refer to the list of birds printed in Bulletin 1, 1883. 



Section A. 

 (Species which occur in St. John and Kings Counties.) 



6. Bluebird (Sialia Sialis). Only three authentic instances of occurrence 



in the province said to be known. 



Note. — A female collected by M. G. B. Henderson on October 20th, 1897, 



on Loch Lomond road, about four miles from this city. Several seen. 



76. Rusty Blackbird (Scoleophagus Carolinus). A male collected on April 



2nd, 1898, by A. Gordon Leavitt. 

 101. Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes Erythrocephalus). Only reported 

 from " Garnett's." 

 Note. — A male collected at Little Lepreau on June 5th, 1897, bj T G. L. 

 Hanson. 



