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185 Denkwiirdigkeiten einer Reise nach dem russischen Amerika, nach Mikro- 

 uesien and durch Kamtschatka. Von F. H. v. Kittlitz. Erster Band 

 [ Z welter Band]. Gotha. Verlag von Justus Perthes. 1858. [b, vol.i, 

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



185933(1 Congress, | 2d Session. j Senate. | Ex. Doc. | No. 78. | = | Reports | of | Ex- 

 plorations and Surveys, | to | ascertain the most practicable and economical 

 route for a railroad | from the | Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. | 

 Made under the direction of the Secretary of War, in | 1853-6, | according to 

 Acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854. | | 

 Volume X. | | Washington : I Beverley Tucker, Printer. | 1859. 

 Explorations and Surveys for a railroad route from the Mississippi River 

 to the Pacific Ocean. | War Department. | = | Fishes: by Charles Gi- 

 rard, M. D. | | Washington, D. C. | 1858.* = [xiv, 400 pp., with plates 

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

 xl, xli, xlviii, liii, lix, Ixi, Ixiv, Ixv, Ixxi.] 



[N. g. and n. sp. Oligocottus globiceps (58), Nautichthys (n. g., 74), AmUodon saturnut (98), 

 Pelamys lineolata (106), Trachurut boops (108), Ephippus zonatus (110), Neodinus (n. g., 114), 

 Neoclinus Blanchardi (1L4), Xiphidion (n. g., 119), Xiphidwn mucosum (119), Ophidian Tay- 

 lori (138), Paralichthys (n. g., 146), Tigoma egregia (291), Thaleichthys (n. g., 325), Thaleichthys 

 Stevensii (325), Jlngraulis nanus (335), Engraulis compressus (336), Tetraodon politus (340), 

 Hippocampus ingens (342), Syngnathus Abboti (346), Syngnathus arundinaceus (340), Raja 

 Cooperi (372), Pctromyzon lividus (379), Petromyzon astori (380), Ammoccetes cibariug (383). t 



As this report brings np our knowledge of the fish fauna of the Pacific coast slope of 

 the United States to the time of its publication, and ma- ks au epoch in the ichthyography 

 of the region in question, the species described are hereicbelow enumerated. Of the 

 several columns, (1) the first contains the family name, (2) the second the generic, (3) the 

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



Order I.-ACANTHOPTERI. 



* General Keport upon the Zoology of the several Pacific Railroad Routes. Part IV. 

 t Dionda grisea (230), "from twenty miles west of Choctaw agency", i< the only other new e-pecics 

 described. 



