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similar to oue teceived from Dr. Thorpe on December 29, 188G. August 22, 1887. 

 Accession 19,507. 



E. E. Call, Des Moines, Iowa, fishes from the vicinity of Des Moines. August 24 



1887. Accession 19,517. 



F. A. Lucas and William Palmer, aboard the schooner Grampus on a cruise to New- 

 foundland and Labrador during July and August, 1887. September 12, 1887. Ac- 

 cession 19,588. Marine and fresh water fishes. 



U. S. Fish Commission, Wood's Holl, Massachusetts, two boxes alcoholic specimens 

 of fishes, hauls 2,739-2,749 of the steamer Albatross, containing two new species* a 

 Notacanthid, and a new Cera Hid. September 26, 1887. Accession 19,640. 



Otto Granim, Laramie, Wyoming, a specimen of Coregonus williamsoni from the 

 Snake River, Wyoming and Colorado, where it is called Grayling by the residents. 

 Mr. Gramm states that these fish rise nicely to a fly during the evening, but not 

 through the day. September 28, 1887. Accession 19,650. 



E. G. Blackford, Fulton Market, New York, one specimen of Trachynotus goreensis, 

 measuring 35 inches in length, weight 22 pounds, from near Crisfield, Maryland. 

 October 4, 1887. Accession 19,666. 



S. G. Worth, Franklin, Virginia, specimens of Clupea mediocris and Boccus lineatus, 

 the gills of the latter being infested with parasites. October 12, 1887. Accession 

 19,692. 



E. G. Blackford, New York, a specimen of Lutjanus blackfordi 4^ inches long, from 

 Bay Shore, Long Island, on the Great South Bay. Noticed on page 512, Proceedings 

 U. S. National Museum, x, 1887, by T. H. Bean. October 27, 1887. Accession 19,733. 



E. G. Blackford, New York, a fresh specimen of the Atlantic salmon, jSalmo salar, 

 29^ inches long ; taken at Point Monmouth, New Jersey. This specimen has been 

 sketched by Mr. Shindler. November 2, 1887. Accession 19,76^. 



George C. Magoun, New York, one skin of the Dolly Varden Trout, Salvelinus malma, 

 measuring 21 inches in length. The fish was captured in northern Montana, in a 

 stream joining the waters of Upper and Lower St. Mary's Lake, by Mr. Thomas Baring. 

 Noticed in American Angler, January 21, 1888, page 44, by T. H. Bean. The eastern 

 limit of the Dolly Varden Trout. November 8, 1887. Accession 19,783. 



W. A. Wilcox, Gloucester, Massachusetts, a new specimen of fisb, Thyrsites viola- 

 ceus, captured by the schooner M. A. Bastan, Capt. Thomas Thompson. (Bean, Pro- 

 ceedings U. S. National Museum, x, 1887, page 513). November 8, 1887. Accession 

 19,784. 



Gilman Sawtell, AUderdice, Beaverhead County, Montana, three fresh specimens 

 of lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, caught in Henry Lake, Idaho. Noticed in Ameri- 

 can Angler, January 28, 1888, page 59. November 12, 1887. Accession 19,803. 



Charles H. Townsend, a collection of fishes from Honduras, Central America. 

 November 14, 1387. Accession 19,811. 



Dr. John D. Quackenbos, New York. Sunapee Lake and Dublin Pond trout. 

 Three specimens of Salvelinus aureolus, new species, from Sunapee Lake, New 

 Hampshire. (Bean, Proceedings U. S. National Museum, x., 1887, page 628). Novem- 

 ber 26, 1887. Accession 19,853. 



Charles Willoughby, Indian agent, Quinaielt Agency, Damon, Washington Terri- 

 tory. A new species of fish, Acrotus, new genus; Acrotus willoughiii, new species. 

 Named in honor of the donor. (Beau, Proceedings U. S. National Museum, x., 1887, 

 page 631). December 17, 1887. Accession 19,957. 



Prof. D. S.Jordan, Bloomington, Indiana. Head -imd Has oi a Salvelinus namaycush, 

 taken by Ashdovvn H. Green, of Victoria, British Columbia, in Camin Lake, 120 

 miles east of New Westminster, on the Caribou Wagon Road. December 23, 1887. 

 Accession 19,979. 



Lieut. J. H. Beacon, U. S. Army, Fort Shaw, Montana. Oue salted skin of 

 Salvelinus namaycush, from St. Mary's Lake, northwestern Montana. Also a photo- 

 graph of the same species taken from a specimen weighing 9 pounds. January 23, 



1888. Accession 20,072. 



