PEOCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 429 



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

 (specimens taken in the Tay). 



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

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



Jenyns, British Vertebrates, 1835, p. 3(54. 



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

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



EiCHAKDSON, Fauna Bor. Amer. 186(i, pp. 78, 81. (Denies its existence 

 in the Western Atlantic.) 



Wilson, Encyclopedia Britannica, art. Ichth. p. 184, pi. ccii. 



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



Stoker, Eeport 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, Loudon, iii, 1849, p. 5. 



Guictienot, Exploration Scientifique de I'Alg^rie, Poissons, 1851, p. 60. 



GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. ii, I860, p. 571; Fische der Siidsee, i, 

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

 on Ichthyology, Encyc. Britaunica, vol. xii : Journ. Mus. Godefl^roy, part 

 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 Cuhensium, ii, 1868, p. 379 {Xj/pliias [/ladiits). 



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

 Spanish specimen). 



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

 Auklaud) {Ziphias gladius). 



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

 land). 



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

 measure:nents of specimens from Shelly Bay, Auckland). 



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



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



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



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

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

 young of Xiphias gladius and related species.) 

 Xiphias BondeldU, Leach, Mem. Wernertan Nat. Hist. Societyii, 1818, p. 58. 

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

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



Descriptive notes on the sword fish, Xiphias gladius. 



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

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

 with any other, I do not think it jiecessary to defer publication until 

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

 specimen, and also partial measurement table for tvpo 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. 



