598 
weissfelchen, ii, 65 
weissfisch, ii, 65 
wels, ii, 182 
welshmen, ii, 253 
West Indian fish, i, 235 
whale-shark, i, 540 
whiff, ii, 488, 489 
whips, i, 206 
whiptail rays, i, 549 
Whiteaves, i, 427 
whitebait, ii, 123, 127, 216 
white bass, ii, 321 
white bullhead, ii, 180 
white catfish, 
figure of, i, 344 
white channel-cat, ii, 180 
white chub, 
figure of, ii, 165 
whitefish, i, 62-64, 305, 322; 
li, 115, 362, 467 
figure of, i, 321 
white-mouthed drummers, ii, 
356 
white perch, ii, 321 
figure of, ii, 322 
white sea-bass, li, 354 
white sharks, i, 534 
white shiner, 
figure showing parasites, i, 
343 
white surf-fish, 
figure of, ii, 374 
with young figured, i, 125; 
li, 372 
whiting, li, 537 
Whitman, i, 428 
on instincts, i, 156 
Whitmee, 
on aquarium fishes, i, 165 
Whitney, ii, 116 
wide-eyed flounder, 
figure of, ii, 488 
wide-gape, ii, 545 
wide-mouthed flounder, 
figure of, ii, 493 
Wiedersheim, i, 513 
Williams, 
on eye of flounder, i, 174- 
178 
Williamson, i, 423 
Williston, i, 427 
willow-cat, ii, 180 
Willughby, i, 390 
Winckler, i, 427 
window-pane fish, ii, 488 
figure of, ii, 487 
wine-colored eel, ii, 153 
wolf-eel, ii, 517 
wolf-fish, ii, 517 
figure of, it, 517 
Wolffian duct, i, 28 
Woodward, i, 426, 428, 519, 
543) 554, 582, 584, Sor, 
Index 
594, 602; ii, 4, 13, 24, 
26, 34, 36, 43, 48, 140, 
425, 514, 522 
Woodward, 
on Acanthodei, i, 514, 516 
on Chondrostei, ii, 17 
on Dorypterus, ii, 16 
on eels, li, 140 
on fossil fishes, i, 439 
on fossil garpike, ii, 32 
on Isospondyli, ii, 38 
portrait of, i, 425 
on Pycnodonti, ii, 23 
Woolman, i, 422 
worm-like eels, ii, 150 
worm of the Yellowstone, i, 
345 | 
Worthen, i, 426 
wrasse, i, 203; ii, 385, 387 
wreckfish, ii, 323 
Wright, i, 427, 428 
on fishes of Panama, i, 275 
wrymouths, 
figure of, ii, 516 
Wyman, 
on month gestation, i, 170 
on protocercal tail, i, 81 
Xanthichthys, ii, 413 
Xererpes, ii, 512 
figure of, il, 511 
Xenichthys, i i, 271; ii, 338 
Xenistius, i, 271; li, 338 
figure of, ii, 338 
Xenocephalidee, i li, 520 
Xenocephalus, ii, 520 
Xenocys, i, 271; ii, 338 
Xenomi, i, 405; ii, 157 
order of, ii, 206 
Xenopterygii, ii, 499 
suborder of, ii, 529 
Xesurus, ii, 409 
Xiphasia, 
figure of, ii, 515 
Xiphasiide, ii, 513 
Xiphias, i, 210, 329, 391; ii, 
269 . 
figure of, ii, 270 
Xiphidiina, ii, 511 
Xiphidion, ii, 512 
Xiphiide, 
family of, ii, 269 
Xiphiorhynchus, i ii, 269 
Xiphorphorus, 
figure of, i, 124; ii, 199 
Xiphistes, 
figure of, ii, 512 
Xyrauchen, ii, 172, 174 
figure of, ii, 175 
Xyrias, 
figure of, ii, 151 
Xvrichthys, i, 207; ii, 388-390 
figure of, ii, 388 
Xystema, ii, 348 
figure of, li, 347 
Xystreurys, li, 492 
Xystrodus, i, 531 
yamabe, i 1, 327; ii, 95 
yama-uo-kama, ii, 445 
Yarrell, i, 410 
on fishing-frog, i, 169 
on sounds, i, 168 
yellowback rockfish, 
figure of, i, 218 
yellow bass, ii, 321 
yellow catfish, ii, 182 
yellow-fin grouper, ii, 325 
figure of, ii, 327 
yellow-fin trout, ii, 105 
figure of, ii, 105 
yellow-fish, ii, 324 
yellow goatfish, ii, 352 
yellow grunt, ii, 340 
yellow mackerel, i, 276 
yellow perch, li, 307 
‘Yellowstone Lake, 
trout of, i, 310, 345-347 
Yellowstone Miller’s Thumb, 
figure of, ii, 444 
yellowtail, ii, 273 
yellow-tail roncador, ii, 356 
figure of, ii, 357 
yellow-tail snapper, 
figure of, ii, 337 
yezomasu, li, 71, 72 
‘Young, i, 426 
on angling, i, 337-339 
Zacalles, 
figure of, ii, 511 
Zacco, ii, 164 
zakko, ii, 117, 120 
Zalarges, ii, 1 34 
Zalembrius, i li, 374, 376 
Zalieutes, ii, 552 
Zalises, 
figure of, ii, 240 
Zanclide, ii, 406 
family of, ii, 406 
Zanclus, i, 240, 268; ii, 406 
figure of, ii, 406 
Zaniolepis, ii, 440 
Zander, ii, 309 
Zaprora, ii, 286 
Zaproride, ii, 286 
Zebrasoma, ii, 408, 409 
Zebrias, ii, 497 
Zeidz, li, 398 
family of, ii, 247 
Zenarchopterus, ii, 212 
Zenion, ii, 249 
Zenopsis, ii, 249 
Zeoidea, i, 241-249 
suborder of, ii, 245 
Zeoidei, ii, 484 
