352 REPORT OP COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



The papers whose titles follow are each more or less faunal in char- 

 acter and each contains references to fishes from definite Missouri 

 Basin localities. 



1854. Louis Agassiz. Notice of .1 collection of fishes from the southern bend of 

 the Tennessee River, in the State of Alabama. <Auier. Journ. Science 

 and Arts, 2d series, vol. xvu, No. 50, March, 1854, 297-308, and No. 51, 

 May, 1854, 353-365. 



In a footnote on page 304 of this paper Professor Agassiz described 

 as new two darters collected in the Osage River, Missouri, by Mr. 

 George Stolley. These are Pcecilichthys spectabilis {=Etheostoma cceru- 

 leum spectabile) and Pcecilichthys punctulatus (=Etheostomapunctulatum). 



1856. Charles Girard. Researches upon the cyprinoid fishes inhabiting the 

 fresh waters of the United States west of the Mississippi Valley, from 

 specimens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. <^Proc. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila. 1856, 165-218. 



This is the first of the several papers based wholly or partly upon 

 the collections made by the naturalists connected with the Pacific 

 Railroad Survey parties which traversed portions of the Missouri 

 Basin. The localities from which the specimens of these collections 

 came are seldom given with any definiteness, as will appear from an 

 examination of the following table. In this table, and in all others of 

 like character in the present paper, the names of new species are printed 

 in italics. 



