TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 Sscnoji A.— Introduction ,--• i 



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ERRATA. 



The typographical blunders enumerated below are in large part due to the absence 

 of the author from town when the proofs were being read. 



Page 9, line 13, insert Eastern Maryland — Pilcher or Pilchard. 



Page 44, line 39, for Daniel T. Church read David T. Church. 



Page 66, line 9, for diagram sections read a diagram section. 



Page 68, line 24, for paragraph read paragraphs. 



Page 77, insert heading to paragraph 103, Recent changes in the northern limits of 

 distribution. 



Page 89, line 7, for fat-fish read fat fish. 



Page 93, line 17, for ostracoda and copeopoda read Ostracoda and Copeopoda, 



Page 99, line 30, for Boardman and Atkins read Ooodale and Atkins. 



Page 115, line 1, for i^. T. Bahson read F. J. Babson. 



Page 118, line 24, for has already been described read is described below. 



Page 120, line 28, for William T. Fithian read William Y. Fithian. 



Page 132, insert heading to paragraph 183, The menhaden fishery and land indus- 

 tries. 



Page 161, insert heading to paragraph 334, Comments. 



34. Mitchill's Olupea sadina and Gronow's Olupea earolinensis 1' 



35. Brevoortia patronug ^' 



36. Agassiz's Clupanodon aureus - ^' 



37. Jenyns's Olupea pectinata ^^ 



38. The generic relations of the species and Gill's genus Brevoortia. (See also Appen- 



dix G) ^l 



39. Kevision of the American species of menhaden 1^ 



SECTIOK C— a DESCUIFnOX OF THE AMERICAN SPECIES OF BKEVOORTIA WITH ANATOMICAL AND 



PHYSIOLOGICAL NOTES ■ ^* 



7. Technical descriptiong • - " 



40. Brevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe), Goode - *® 



41. Brenoortia patronus, Goode 



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42. Brevoortia pectinata, J enjaa, Gill. 



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