REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF FISHES. 107 



From Loren W. Green, of Baird, Shasta County, California : 2 specimens of Pota- 

 mocottus gulosus from the McCloud River. This fish is destructive to Salmon eggs. 



From Gwynn Harris, of Washington, D. C: A specimen of tench, Tinea tinea, from 

 the Potomac River. 



From William C. Harris, of New York : Coregonus williamsoni, Thymallus tricolor 

 (Monlanus form), and Salmo purpuratus (virginalis form), from the Gallatin River, 

 Montana. 



From William C. Harris, of New York : Salvelinus malma, Coregonus williamsoni, and 

 PtychocMlus orcgonensis from Clark's Fork of the Columbia. 



From J. T. Havens, Fourth life-saving station, Point Pleasant, New Jersey : A fresh 

 specimen of Trumpet-fish, Fisiularia tabaccaria. 



From O. P. Hay, of Irviugton, Indiana: 16 species offish from Kansas. 



From William Herrick, Swan's Island, Hancock County, Maine : Specimens of food 

 taken from mouth of Mackerel, Onos cimbrius, juv., Gasterosteus gymnurus, Clupea haren- 

 gus, Phyeis, juv., Pollachius virens, all very young. 



From C. F. Hodge, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland : One jar of 

 fishes for identification from Green Turtle Bay, Bahama Islands, out of which the 

 Museum retains 3 specimens of Querimana gyrans, 2 of Gambusia puncticulata, and 1, 

 1^ inches long, Sphyrcena picuda. 



From E. B. Hodge, of Plymouth, New Hampshire: 8 fresh specimens of Salvelinus 

 agassizii from Suuapee Lake. 



From Prof. D. S. Jordan, of Bloomington, Indiana : Prionotus roseus, Searus ever- 

 manni, Steinegeria rubescens, Antkias vivanus, Searus bolhnani, Zygonectes escambice, Z. 

 cingulatus, Gallechelys murasna, Serranus ocyurus, and Phyeis floridanus. 



From Prof. D. S. Jordan, of Bloomington, Indiana : A specimen of Thalassophryne 

 doui from Punta Arenas, Gulf of California. 



From Alfred Johnson, schooner Mary S. Hontvet (through W. A. Wilcox) : A very 

 large specimen of Alepocephalus bairdi and one specimen of Pteraclis carolinus. 



From W. L. May, of Fremont, Nebraska : A small bottle of Fat-head Minnows, 

 Pimepliales promelas. Rained down at Harvard, Nebraska, June 14, 1866. 



From H. C. Nichols, U. S. Navy, commanding U. S. S. Pinta, Sitka, Alaska: A tank 

 of Alaskan fishes and a specimen of Myxine aus'tralis from the Straits of Magellan. 



From Joseph F. Reed, keeper U. S. life-saving station, Island Beach, Tom's River, 

 New Jersey: A specimen of Lump-fish, Cyclopterus lumpus. 



From W. E. Safford, ensign, U. S. steamer Mohican: Seven bottles and nine vials 

 of fishes from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and from Montevideo, Uruguay, South 

 America ; Myxine australis from Straits ofMagellan, Xiphorhamphus jenynsii, and Tetra- 

 gonopterus, besides some pelagic forms not yet identified. 



From the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia: 

 2 specimens Phoxinus stagnalis ; new species. 



From Miss Rosa Smith, of San Diego, Calfornia : A photograph of Tetraodon setosus. 

 Picture of the type, 



From Lieut. G. M. Stoney, U. S. Navy : 15 species of fishes from the Kowak 

 River, Alaska. Large and well-preserved specimeu of Stenodus, Coregonus tullibee, 

 Oncorhynchi, Salvelinus, Thymalhis, etc. 



From Lieut. E. H. Taunt, U. S. Navy : Sketches of 10 species of fishes from the Congo 

 River, Africa. 



From Thomas Thompson, schooner M. A. Baston (through W. A. Wilcox, Glouces- 

 ter, Massachusetts) : 2 specimens of Chimcera affinis, and a specimen of Haloporphyrus 

 ^iola. 



From C. H. Townsend, Honduras, Central America: 17 species of fishes from Cen- 

 tral America. 



U. S. Fish Commission, Wood's Holl, Massachusetts: A fresh specimen of Amber- 

 fish or Yellow-tail, Seriola lalandii, from Menemshe, Martha's Vineyard. 



U. S. Fish Commission, Wood's Holl, Massachusetts : A fresh specimen of Histio- 

 phorus gladius. 



