KEPOKT OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL MUSEUM. * 129 



Shoemaker, George. — Abundance of the Ilermit Thrush in Winter 

 near Washington, D. C. 



(Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, April, 1881, vol. vi, pp. 113, 114.) 

 A specimen of the above-named species was obtained January 1, tbo mer- 

 cury registering — 14°, and is now in the National Museum collection. The 

 species was quite common during the coldest weather of the severe winter of 



1880-'81. 



Smith, Eosa. — Description of a new gobioid fish {Othonops eos), from 

 San Diego, California. 



(Proc. U. S. N. M., iv, pp. 19-21.) 



Synonym of Tijphlogohius californiensis Steind. — See Proc, iv, 140. 



Description of a new species of Oobiesox {Gohiesox rJiessodon), 



from San Diego, California. 



(Proc. U. S. N. M., iv, pp. 140-141.) 



Smith, S. I. — Preliminary notice of the Crustacea dredged, in G4 to 

 325 fathoms, off the"*south coast of New England by the United 

 States Fish Commission in 1880. 



(Proc. U. S. N. M., 1880, iii, pp. 413-452.) 



An enumeration of the principal Crustacea obtained by the United States 

 Fish Commission, in 1880, from the inner edge of the Gulf Stream slope, 

 south of Newport, R. I., with notes on the previously-known species and de- 

 scriptions of one new genus and fourteen new species. Four additional 

 species are mentioned as new without descriptions. The total number of 

 species recorded is 50. The paper closes with a table showing the geo- 

 graphical and bathymetrical range of the species. 



Stone, LivmasTON. — Mortality of McCloud Eiver Salmon in 1881. 



(Bull. U. S. F. C, i, p. 134.) 



Verrill, a. E. — The Cephalopods of the Northeastern Coast of America. 

 Part II. The Smaller Ceplmlopods, including the " Squids " and 

 Octopi, with other allied forms. 



(Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sci., 1881, vol. v, pp. 259-424, phites 2G-5G.) 

 This "is a monographic revision, with descriptions and figures of all the 

 species. A considerable amount of anatomical work is also introduced. 

 Most of the species had previously been noticed in dill'erent articles in the 

 American Journal of Science. Among those not x^reviously described are 

 Chiroteidhislacerlosa, BracMoteuihis Btaiiii, gen. et. sp. nov., liossia megap.era. 

 A new genus (Stoloteuthis) has also been established for Sepiola Iciicop- 

 tera V." • 



New England Annelida. Part i. Historical sketch, with an- 

 notated lists of the species hitherto recoixled. 



(Trans. Conn. Acad., 1881, vol. iv, pp. 285-324.) 



" In connection with the annotation, a considerable number of changes in 

 nomenclature are introduced, and a few new genera are established." 



Eecent pajiers on the marine invertebrata of the Atlantic coast 



of North America : 



(Am. Journ. Sci., Nov., 1881, vol. xxii.) A list with brief notes. 

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