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7 39. Brevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe) Goode. 
_ The common menhaden was described under the name 
_ Clupea tyrannus by Latrobe in 1802, and the specific name then 
_ proposed has priority over all others. An extended study of 
_ the species of this group indicates that the B. tyrannus occurs 
_on the coast of Brazil, as far south as Bahia, and that Spix’s 
_ Clupanodon aureus is specifically identical and should be in- 
_ cluded as a subspecies, B tyrannus subspecies aurea. 
40, Brevoortia patronus Goode. 
the Gulf of Mexico, from the mouth of the Rio Grande to 
Pensacola, Florida, where Mr. Stearns observed it in great 
abundance. 
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41, Alosa sapidissima (Wilson) Storer. 
Through the agency of the United States Commission of 
Fisheries the common shad has been introduced into most of 
the rivers flowing through the Southern States into the Gulf of 
Mexico, and may now be considered a member of the fauna of 
that region, its range south and west having been extended 
over at least twelve hundred additional miles of coast line. It 
is also acclimated in California. 
42. Pomolobus pseudoharengus (Wilson) Gill. 
___ Abundant in Lake Ontario, Cayuga and Seneca Lakes, New 
York. The variety lacustris, founded on Cayuga Lake specimens 
_ by Professor Jordan, is precisely like the average coast alewife. 
After careful measurements of numerous lake and coast speci- 
mens I am unable to separate them. (Bean.) 
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| the stomach of a cod fish caught on George 
tion of the Cape Ann Literary and Scientific Association at 
name Leptorhyncus Leuchtenbergii. Giinther considers it to be 
identical with N. scolopaceus. The American fish is at present 
assigned to the same species. The family Nemichthyide is new 
