126 REPORT OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL MUSEUM. 

 Brewster, William. — Critical notes on a Petrel new to North America. 



(BulL Niitt. Orn. Club, April, 1881, vol. vi, pp. 91-97.) 



A specimen of an QSstrelata captured alive in a plowed field at Mount Mor- 

 ris, Livingston County, New York, was identified by Mr. Brewster by com- 

 parison with the type specimen in the National Museum, as CE. gularis 

 (Peale). 



On the affinities of certain Polioptilse, with a description of a 



new species. 



(Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, April, 1881, vol. vi, pp. 101-107.) 

 Based largely on specimens in the collection of the National Museum, 

 among which are the types of P. californica Brewst., sp. nov. (p. 103). 



Collins, Capt. J. W. — Gill-nets in the cod fishery : A description of 

 the I^orwegian cod nets, with directions for their use, and a history 

 of their introduction into the United States. 

 (Bull. U. S. F. C, 1881, vol. i, pp. 1-17, 12 pi.) 



Endlich, F. M. — An analysis of water destructive to fish in the Gulf of 

 Mexico. 



(Proc.U. S. N. M., iv, p. 124.) 

 Farlow, W. G. — Eeport on the contents of two bottles of water from 

 the Gulf of Mexico ; forwarded by the Smithsonian Institution. 



(Proc. U. S. N. M., iv, p. 234.) 



Garman, Samuel. — Synopsis and descriptions of the American BMno- 

 hatidce. 



(Proc. U. S. N. M., 1880, iii, pp. 516-523.) 



Gill, Theodore. — Note on the Latiloid genera. 



(Proc. U. S. N. M., 1881, iv, pp. 162-164.) 



Glazier, W. C. W., Assistant Surgeon, M. H. S. — On the destruc- 

 tion of fish by polluted waters in the Gulf of Mexico. 



(Proc. U. S. N. M., iv, pp. 126-127.) 



GuRNEY, John Henry. — Note on Onychotes grueberi, Eidgway. 



(The Ibis (London), July, 1881, 4th ser., vol. v, pp. 396-398, pi. xii.) 



This article and the fine plate accompanying it is based on the two type 



specimens in the U. S. National Museum collection, the only examples of the 



species known to exist. 



Harger, Oscar. — Eeport on the Marine Isopoda, of New England, 

 and adjacent waters. 



(Rept. U. S. Comm. Fish and Fisheries, part vi, pp. 297-462, plates i-xiii). 



"The following paper includes the species of Isopoda at jjresent known to 

 inhabit the coast of New England and the adjacent region, as far as Nova 

 Scotia on the north and New Jersey on the south." This is a very complete 

 account of all the New England Isopods known up to the date of publication, 

 full descriptions being given of all the families, genera, and species, and de- 

 tailed figures of all the species. Fourteen families, 34 genera, and 46 species 

 are described ; of these one genus and one species (Syscetuis ivfelix) are new. 

 An account of the geographical distribution of the species described is given, 

 followed by a table illustrating their geographical and balthymetrical range 

 in detail, and a list of the authorities quoted. 



