PEOCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 429 



Fleming, British Animals, p. 220, and in Brewster's Jonrnal, ii, p. 187 

 (specimens taken in the Tay). 



CuviER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. viii, 1835, p. 235, pis. ccxxv 

 (figure of yonng of 12 to 18 inches length), ccxxvi (fig. of adult). 



Jenyns, British Vertebrates, 1835, p. 364. 



Yarrell. History of British Fishes, 1st ed. 1836, p. 143 (fig. of yonng); 

 2d ed., p. 164 (fig. of young). 



Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer. 1866, pp. 78, 81. (Denies its existence 

 in the Western Atlantic.) 



Wilson, Encyclopedia Britannica, art. Iclith. p. 184, pl.ccii. 



Parnell, Fishes of the Firth of Forth, 1838, p. 55. 



Storer, Report on the Fishes of Massachusetts, 1839, p. 51 : Memoirs 

 American Academy of Sciences, 1846, p. 347; 1853, p. 149: Synopsis of 

 the Fishes of North America, 1846. p. 95: History of the Fishes of Mas- 

 sachusetts, 1867, p. 71, pi. xiii, fig. 2. 



Dekay, Zoology of New York, Fishes, 1842, p. Ill, pi. xxvi, fig. 79. 



Lowe, Trans. Zoological Society, London, iii, 1849, p. 5. 



Guichenot, Exploration Scientifique de l'Alg6rie, Poissons, 1851, p. 60. 



GuNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. ii, 1860, p. 571 ; Fische der Siidsee, i, 

 1873-5, p. 105 ; Stndy of Fishes, 1880, pp. 173, 431 (cnts), and article 

 on Ichthyology, Encyc. Britannica, vol. xii : Jonrn. Mus. Godefifroy, pai"t 

 ii, p. 170, figs. 



Gill, Cat. Fish. E. Coast N. E. 1861, p. 38; Canadian Naturalist, 1865, p. 

 250; Cat. Fish. E. Coast N. A. 1873, p. 24; and in Rep. U. S. C. F. i, 

 1873, p. 802. 



POEY, Syn. Piscium Cnheusium, ii, 1868, p. 379 {Xyphias yladiits). 



Steindachner, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien. 1868, p. 396 (measurement of a 

 Spanish specimen). 



Hecior, Trans. New Zealand Institntc, vii, 1873, p. 246 (occurring at 

 Aukland) {ZipMas gladius). 



Hutton, Trans. New Zealand, part vii, 1873, p. 211 (second occ. at Auck- 

 land). 



Cheeseman, Trans. New Zealand, part viii, 1875, p. 219 {ZipHas gladius, 

 measurements of specimens from Sht41y Bay, Auckland). 



Goode, Cat. Fishes Bermudas, 1876, p. 45. 



GooDE & Bean, Cat. Fish. Mass. Bay, 1879, p. 14. 



GiGLioLi, Catalogo Esp.Internat. di Pesca. Berlin, 1880, p. 88. 



LtJTKEN, Vid. Selsk Skr. 5te. Ruckke, naturv. og math. Afd. iii, 6, (Spo- 

 lia Atlantica), pp. 441, .592, figs. 1, 2, 3, pi. ii, fig. 10. (Notes upon the 

 young of Xi2)hias gladius and related species.) 

 Xipluas EonddcHi, Leach, Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Society ii, 1818, p. 58. 



Steindachner, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien. 1868, p. 396. 



HuTTON, Trans. New Zealand, ])art viii, 1873, p. 211. 



Descriptive notes on the sword fish, Xiphias gladius. 



My notes fail to supply tlie necessary data for a full description of 

 the species, and since the fish is not likely by any one to be confounded 

 with any other, I do not thiidc it necessary to defer publication until 

 this data can be supplied. I apj)end the following- note upon a small 

 specimen, and also partial measurement table for two others, one in 

 inches, the other in millimeters. 



A specimen taken off Seaconnet, July 23, 1875. Weight 113 pounds; 

 extremity of sword gone. One of the smallest ever seen in this region. 



