816 EEPOET OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



BAIRD (Spencer Fullerton). Report on the Fishes observed oti the Coasts of New 

 Jersey and Long Island during the Summer of 1854, by Spencer F. Baird, Assistant 

 Secretary of tJie Smithsonian Institution. <Ninth Annual Report of the Smithso- 

 nian Institution [for 1854], 1855, pp. 317-352 -f *337. 

 Reprinted as a pamphlet, with an index, and the following title : 

 Report to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, on the Fishes of the New 

 Jersey Coast, as observed in the Summer of 1854, by Spencer F. Baird, Assistant 

 Secretary Smithsonian Institution. From the Ninth Annual Report of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution feu; 1854. Washington: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, 

 June, 1855. [8vo, 40 pp.] 

 67 species, of which 57 are marine, or brackish-water, and 10 fresh-water, were ob- 

 served, and valuable notes on habits and color in a fresh state were recorded. 



DEKAY (James E. . . . ). Letter from J. E. DeKay, of the Zoological Depart- 

 ment, May 7, 1839. <State of New York, .... Communication from the Gov- 

 ernor, transmitting Several Reports relative to the Geological Survey of the State. 

 1840, pp. 7-14. 

 A mere list of species, of no value. 



Report of J. E. DeKay, of the Zoological Department [on the Fauna of New 



York. December 20, 1839]. <Ib. pp. 15-36. 



A list like the preceding. 



Zoology of New- York, or the New-York Fauna ; comprising detailed descriptions 



of all the animals hitherto observed within the State of New- York, with brief no- 

 tices of those occasionally found near its borders, and accompanied by appropriate 

 illustrations By James E. DeKay. Part IV. Fishes. — Albany : printed by W. & 

 A. White & J. Visscher. 1842. [4to, xiv [1, errata], 415 pp. ; atlas, 1 p. l.,79 p. 1.] 

 Descriptions (and, in most cases, figures) of 335 nominal species are given, exclusive 



of the "extra-limital species" especially so designated, but including some that are 



really such. Of these 335 nominal species, 265 (including Labraces, Gasterosteidse, 



Anguillidaj) are salt- or brackish-water, and 70 fresh-water. 



FABRXCXUS (Otto). Favna Grcenlandiea, systematice sistens animalia Grcenlandiaj 

 occidentalis hactenvs indagata, quoad nomen specificvm, triviale, vernacvlvmqve ; 

 synonyma avctorvm plvrivm, descriptionem, locvm, victvm, generationem, mores, 

 vsvm, captvramqve singvli, provt detegendi occasio fvit, maxiinaqve parte 

 secvndvm proprias observationes Othonis Fabricii ministri evangelii, qvondam 

 Grcenlandisadcoloniam Friderichshaab, . . . Hafnite et Lipsise, impensis Ioannis 

 Gottlob Rothe, . . . MDCCLXXX. [8vo.] 

 Contains descriptions and notices of 44 species. 



FORTH? (Pierre). List of the Cetacea, Fishes, Crustacea, and Mollusca, which now 

 inhabit and have inhabited the Canadian shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and 

 are the object of fishing operations, whether on a large or small scale, and which 

 lire used as bait, &c, &c. <[ Annual Reports of Pierre Fortin, Esq., magistrate in 

 command of the expedition for the protection of the fisheries in the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence, during the seasons of 1861 and 1882. (Quebec, 1863), pp. 109-124. 



Continuation of the List of Fish [of] the Gulf and River St. Lawrence. < Annual 



Reports of Pierre Fortin, Esq., [commanding] the expedition for the protection of 

 the fisheries in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, during the season of 1863, (pp. 60-72), 

 1864, (pp. 61-69), 1865, (pp.69-79). (Quebec, 1864-1866.) 

 The title of each report is slightly varied. 



GILL (Theodore Nicholas). Catalogue of the Fishes of the Eastern Coast of 

 North America, from Greenland to Georgia. . . . January, 1861. [8vo, 63 pp.] 

 Issued as an appendix to the "Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, 1861." 



