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1§3§ — Deukwurdigkeiten einer Keise nach dem rnssisclion Anicrikn, iiach Mikro- 

 uesien and durcb KamtscbatUa. Von F. H. v. Kittlitz. — Erstcr Band 

 [ — Zsveiter Band]. — Gotlia. Verlag von Justus Pcrtbes. 1858. [fc<^", vol.i, 

 xvi, 383 pp., 2 pi. ; vol. ii, 2 p. 1., 463 pp., 2 pi.] 



1859 — 33d Congress, | 2d Session. /Senate, j Ex. Doc. | No. 78. | = | Reports j of | Ex- 

 plorations and Surveys, | to | ascertain tbe most practicable and ccoDomical 

 route for a railroad | from tbe | Mississippi River to tbe Paciflc Ocean. | 

 Made under tbe direction of tbe Secretary of War, in | lt5£3-t), | according to 

 * Acts of Congress of Marcb 3, 1853, May 3i, lri54, and August 5, 1854. | — | 

 Volume X. I — | Washiugtou : I Beverley Tucker, Printer. | 1859. 



Explorations and Surveys for a railroad route from tbe Mississipj)! River 

 to tbe Pacific Ocean. | War Department. | = | Fisbes: by Charles Gi- 

 rard, M. D. | — | Wasbington, D. C. | 1858.* =; [xiv, 400 i)p., witb plates 

 vii-viii, xiii-xiv, xvii, xviii, xxii c, xxvi, xxix, xxx, xxxiv, xxxvii, 

 xl, xli, xhiii, liii, lix, ixi, Ixiv, Ixv, Ixxi.] 



[N. g. and n. sp. Oliiiocnttus globiceps (.i^), Nautkhthys (n. g., 74), Amhlodon saturnnn (Oif), 

 Pelamys lineolata (100), Trachurus boups (108), Dphippux zonatus (110), Xcoclinui; (u. t., 1 H), 

 Keoclinus Blanchardi (lU), Xiphidion (n. g., 110), Xiphhlion mucostiM (119), Oplddion Tay- 

 lori (13tf), raralichtUys (n. g., HG), Tigoma egrcjia (-291), Thalcichthys (n. g., 'ii'i), Thuleichthyn 

 Stevens-ii (3-2')), E- grauUs na\xis ('iXt), Enfiraulia coit.presnu.s (3JG), Tetraodon politus (340), 

 Hippocampus ingeng (ii-2), ,^yngnathus Ahboti (310), Sijngnathus arundinaceus {'MiJ), Haja 

 Cooperi (37i;), Pctrumyzon lividiis (379), Fctromyzon astori (3t-0), Ammocoetcs cibarius (383). t 



As this report brings up our knowledge of tho fi.sh faun;i of the PacJlio coast slope of 

 the United States to Iho time of its publicatioi), and lua ks a : eijoch in the ichihyography 

 of the region in question, tho species described aro hi reitj below enumt rated. Of tho 

 several columns, (1) tbe first contains the family name, (2) tho stcond the generic, (3) the 

 third the specific, and (4) the right hand one, tho page where the species are described : — 



Order I.— ACANTnOPTERI. 



PercidfB 



Trachinidas 

 SphyraeuidiB 

 HeterolepididoB 



Cottidas 



* Creneral Iteport upon tho Zoology of the several Paciflc Hailioad Iloutes. Part IV. 

 t Dlotida grisea (-030), "from twenty miles west of Chcctaw agency ", ia the only other low ypociea 

 described. 



