FISHES OF THE EAST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA. 37 



3— BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EAST COAST FISHES. 



The following list embraces almost all the articles purporting to enumerate all the 

 salt-water fishes found at or recorded as inhabiting a given locality, from Greenland 

 to Florida, or (e. g. Holbrook's and Putnam's articles,) commenced with such inten- 

 tion ; in addition, the titles of M. Felipe Poey's catalogues are given, as they are in- 

 dispensable to the American ichthyologist. These articles have been arranged under 

 the names of their authors in alphabetical order. They represent the following geo- 

 graphical areas, commencing with (1) the general works, and then (2) the northern 

 areas. 



General. Gill, Storer (D. H.). — DeKay's "Zoology of New York" may be added as 

 it contains brief notices of the "extra-limital species." 



Northern America. Richardson. 



Greenland. Fabricius, Bernhardt. 



Gulf of St. Lawrence and Pay of Fundy. Fortin, Gill. 



Labrador. Storer (H. R.) 



Nova Scotia. Knight, Perley, Storer (H. R.) 



Maine. Holmes. 



Massachusetts. Lyman, Putnam, Smith, Storer (D. H.) 



Connecticut. Linsley. 



New York. Ayres, DeKay, Mitchill. 



New Jersey. Abbott, Baird. 



South Carolina. Holbrook, Storer. 



Georgia. Holbrook. 



In addition to these, the reports and journals of arctic travelers, and histories and 

 geographies of countries and states may be referred to; but as the lists coutained in 

 such works are generally compilations by unscientific persons, they require to be con- 

 sulted with great caution. Special mention need only be made of Bouuycastle's " New- 

 foundland in 1842," Belknap's "History of New Hampshire" (1793), Mather's "Geography 

 of the State of New York " (1847), andRussell's " Harper's New-York State Class-Book" 

 (1847). 



ABBOTT (Charles Conrad). Catalogue of Vertebrate Animals of New Jersey. . . 

 <^Geology of New Jersey. By authority of the legislature. George H. Cook, State 

 Geologist, . . . 1868— Appendix E, or pp. 751-830. ("Fishes," pp. 803-830.)' 

 237 species, of which 194 are marine and 43 fresh-water, are recorded; but many 



of the names are synonyms, and the list bears evidence of being a compilation, and 



must be consulted with caution. 



AYRES (William O . . . ). Enumeration of the Fishes from Brookhaven, Long 

 Island, with Remarks upon the Species observed. . . . ^Boston Journal of Natural 

 History, . . . vol. IV, 1844, pp. 235-264 (September, 1842); 265-292 (April, 1843). 



61 species are enumerated, including 9 fresh-water species, and observations on the 

 characters and habits of most are recorded 



4 species are enumerated as new (Cottus variabilis [Cottus octodecvm-spinosw'l], 

 Gasterosteus millepunctatm \_Apeltes qno.dracusl], Funduhis fuseus [= Melanwra], and Car- 

 charias griseus [= Eugomphodus littoralis] ), the last three of which were described in a 

 succeeding article (Description of four species [including Leucisem vasutus'] of Fish from 

 Brookhaven, L. I., all of which are believed to be now), <op. cit., iv, pp. 293-303, 

 pi. 12. 



