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Gill, On the Fishes of New York, in Annual Eeport of the 

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Cook, op. cit., 1. c. 

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Steindachner, in Sixth Annual Eeport of the Commissioners 

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Verrill, Smith and Harger, Catalogue of the Marine In- 

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GooDE, Catalogue of the Collection to illustrate the Animal 

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UhLer & Lugger, List of the Fishes of Maryland, in the Ee- 

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Hind, The Effect of the Fishery Clauses of the Treaty of Wash- 

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Dekay, op. cit, p. 263, pi. xl, fig. 129. 

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