254 ANIMAL RESOLRCES AND FISHERIES OP UNITED STATES. 



32731. "Cow Bay." Long Island, New York. 



32791. "Glenwood." Gleuwood, Long Island, New York. 



32812. "Cove." Long Island, New York. 



32920. "City Island." Long Island Sound, New York. 



32919. "Mill Pond." Cow Bay, Long Island, New York. 



32778. "Shrewsbury's." Shrewsbury Eiver, New Jersey. 



32915. "Egg Island." Three years old. Morris Cove, Delaware. 



33788. "Chesapeake-" Crisiield. Md. E. G. Blackford. 



32976. Pokamoke, Virginia. E. G. Blackford. 



NOTE. The following scries from the waters of Virginia and. 

 Maryland, all indigenous or "natural growths" as distinguished 

 from "plants," Avere selected by Mr. G. W. Harvey, and furnished 

 by Harvey & Holdeu, oyster-dealers of Washington, D. C. : 



33096. "St. Gerome River." Maryland. 



33097. "Deep Creek." Eastern shore of Maryland. 



33098. " Tangier Sound." Chesapeake Bay. 

 33100! "Little River." Western shore of Maryland. 



33099. "Point Lookout Creek." Virgin;;.. 



33101. "Naswaddox." Eastern shore of Virginia. 



33095. "Rappahannock." Rappahannoek River, Virginia. 



33103. "York River." York River, Virginia. 



33104. "Cherrystones." Chesapeake Bay. 



33102. " Presby's Creek." Presby's Creek, Virginia. 



The following series from Florida Avere furnished by Kossuth 

 Niles, U. S. N. : 



32805. " Appalachicola Bay." Appalachicola Bay, Florida. 



32806. "Cat Point." Same locality. 

 32807. . Same locality. 



32808. " Raccoon oysters." Appalachicola Bay, Florida. 



The following series from the vicinity of New Orleans were selected 

 by M. Zatarain, and furnished by W. Alex. Gordon, esq., of New 

 Orleans, La. : 



32800. " Timbalier Bay." Louisiana. 



32801. " Southwest Pass." Louisiana. 



32802. "Bayou Cook." Louisiana. 



32803. "Four Bayous." Louisiana. 



32804. "Grand Lake." Louisiana. 



Ostrea lurid a, Cpr. WEST COAST OYSTERS. 



,32879. Natives. Crescent City, Cal. W. H. Ball. 



32809. Natives. Shoal water Bay, W. T. H. Heinphill. 

 32798. Natives. San Diego, Cal. H. Hemphill. 



32798. Eastern oyster (O. rirginica). Taken from Newark Bay, N. J., when 

 a year old and planted in San Francisco Bay ; showing two years' 

 growth in California waters. 



Extra limital : 



32878. Fossil oyster from marine Tertiary beds near Vicksburg, Miss. Close- 

 ly resembling the present English oyster. 



32311. Fresh specimen, English oyster (O. edulis, Linn.). Introduced for 

 comparison with the American fossil and recent '-oysters. North 

 Sea. Dr. Win. Stimpsou. 



